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: <24B8D053.19561@ateng.com> Date: 10 Jul 89 16:35:30 GMT References: <24AF7C38.8967@ateng.com> <24A91A67.28396@ateng.com> <3300@epimass.EPI.COM> <197600001@inmet> <14403@bfmny0.UUCP> <3749@viscous.sco.COM> <29-Jun-89.175917@192.41.214.248> <1149@intercon.UUCP> <14219@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <24B4CDB3.5287@ateng.com> <3601@l Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 22 According to brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton): >>According to mjm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael McClennen): >>>Here's an idea: Why don't the IMN people simply distribute (via whatever >>>mechanism they choose) each day a comment on the day's news feed [...] > >You think this is OK. Would you then forbid a site from asking that this >list control their FEED, and not just their reading? > >But if it controls their feed, it's exactly the same as IMN. Including >the redistribution restriction, since the feed is an instantiation of the >copyrighted list. No, it's not; not any more than a bibliography is an instantiation of the books it references. "So," someone may ask, "just how is IMN supposed to make their money?" Perhaps there is no legal way for IMN to make money. Aww, too bad. -- 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!