Newsgroups: can.general
Path: utzoo!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: Mohawks Oppose Golf Course Plan
Message-ID: <618421341.17566@telly.on.ca>
Keywords: mohawks golf course
Organization: Just far enough from Toronto
References: <1930@yunccn.UUCP> <3938@looking.on.ca>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 89 15:42:18 GMT

In article <3938@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

>I would sincerely doubt that the Canadian Press has given release for
>these articles to be distributed.  I strongly suspect they are copyrighted.

Big bloody deal. One lousy article, out of all the megabytes generated
daily by CP (actually, mostly just ripped off from member newspapers
and re-written). I'm sure their accountants are at this moment
counting all the revenue they've lost because of this posting...

Or is it Brad who is worried? As one who has chosen to sell newswire
services using Usenet mechanisms, I guess he now feels he has to be
the net's newswire copyright watchdog. Sigh.

>Do not use USENET for information piracy on this scale.

On this scale? Hah! You should submit that one to your joke group, Brad.

News gathering bodies, some of which may not be members of CP, routinely
rip each other off in massive amounts daily. Restaurants and producers of
entertainment prominently post favourable reviews without getting
permission all the time. (One of mine, written a dozen years ago, still
sits in the front window of the downtown Toronto Yuk Yuk's. Neither I nor
my paper was asked for permission. Neither cared.)

And, most importantly, political action groups have been known to
spread news reports about themselves as widely as possible to generate
credibility and/or interest in their cause.

I'll take a giant leap here and suggest that the posting was made to
alert people of this issue who had not seen it in their local CP-member
paper (or, whose local CP-member paper chose to kill or bury the story).

This level of 'piracy' as you call it, legal or not, has been tolerated by
the press for decades if not centuries. The only journal I know of which
actively enforces its copyright is Consumers Reports, and it hasn't
always been successful.

>Keep to short,
>attributed excerpts or write your own report.

...or buy Clarinet, eh?

Sheesh.

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