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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PD applications on GENIE / EMPIRE Version 3.0 for the ST.
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Date: 23 Aug 89 17:05:02 GMT
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In article <752@lzaz.ATT.COM> hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:

>> [ about someone getting good files from Genie and sending them to
     Usenet... ]

>I think the GENIE agreement procludes this, as the Collection of pd on
>GENIE is copyright by GENIE.  

A compilation copyright doesn't change copyrights on the files. So it
is entirely legal to post *individual* files from Genie to the net, because
those files are covered by whatever copyright their author put on them.

What is illegal is making an archive only containing *exactly* what
Genie has, by downloading from Genie. That would be a *compilation* of
programs identical to Genie's compilation, and hence you would be
using their intellectual effort of compiling their collection to
compile yours.

I'm not a lawyer, so I could be totally wrong. But this issue has been
argued about several times before, here and elsewhere.

-- greg
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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                             I'm not the NRA.