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From: rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Richard Champeaux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk recall notice
Summary: "In Russian, Copyright means right to copy".
Message-ID: <9305@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 90 18:00:43 GMT
References: <113@fishpond.UUCP> <1990Jun6.224027.13036@cbnewsm.att.com> <3998@milton.acs.washington.edu> <1990Jun10.191013.26855@uncecs.edu>
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In article <1990Jun10.191013.26855@uncecs.edu> urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
>In article <3998@milton.acs.washington.edu>, gwangung@milton.acs.washington.edu (Roger Tang) writes:
>> 	Clones appear, ripping off the Tetris name.  This hurts not only
>> Spectrum Holobyte as AMerican distributor but the original, Russian author.
>> 
>> 	Spectrum Holobyte moves to protect its rights as distributor and
>> the rights of the Russian author.
>> 

All this talk about protecting the rights of the Russian author reminds me
of an article I read in "News Week" not too long ago.  At least I think it was
News Week, although it could have been one of the others.  Anyhow, the title
of the article was something like "In Russian, Copyright means right to copy".
The article went on to say that the majority of the programs in use in the
U.S.S.R are illegal copies.  I can't seem to find the article, but it was
sometime around late March and early April.  I found the magazine on a plane,
took it with me and left it on another plane.

I'll look for it again, and if I find it, I'll either post a summary, or
the article itself.  It was fairly interesting.

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