Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation Message-ID: <24B8CEB3.19453@ateng.com> Date: 10 Jul 89 16:28:35 GMT References: <3300@epimass.EPI.COM> <197600001@inmet> <14403@bfmny0.UUCP> <3749@viscous.sco.COM> <24A91A67.28396@ateng.com> <3579@looking.on.ca> <24B4CCD7.5183@ateng.com> <3600@looking.on.ca> Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 30 According to brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton): >Let's not get down to the read my lips level... Okay. >Take any given article from IMN. Can you redistribute it? YES. >But can you re-send *all* the articles in an IMN group? No. It is the >collection that you can't redistribute, not the articles themselves. So it it will, no doubt, have a compilation copyright. So the articles will be part of a "published collection." Will Anterior be asking authors for permission? They'd better ask me, so I can tell them: "No". But that's beside the point. Just why does IMN get my goat, anyway? I'll tell you. Usenet has always been freely redistributable. In pieces, if desired, but also -- nay, _especially_ -- as a whole. That free interchange of articles, even those articles that you don't care to read but your neighbor does, makes Usenet a community. Anterior intends to use the thoughts and works of hundreds of altruistic givers -- the best and brightest of Usenet -- just to turn a buck. I'm saddened that Mr. Goodfellow sees Usenet, not as a community to be joined, but as a natural resource to be exploited. -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg | or A T Engineering | Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest!