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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
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Subject: Re: Your articles sold for cash.
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Date: 30 Jul 90 22:44:44 GMT
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I don't mind if anybody uses my postings for personal use, and I also
don't mind if they use them in some business, as long as they are not
directly profiting from my work.  (That is - if they just use the Minix
operating system to do other work, this is just fine.)  I am really
upset that somebody would have the gall to re-sell my postings and
profit from them.

Well, we can (and should) let Prentice Hall know about this.  Second, I
will start to put a notice on my postings that they cannot be sold or
re-sold by any party, any time, or any place.

In the United States, a person holds a copyright on any material he
writes, whether or not he registers that material with the copyright
office, and this copyright protects him against others profiting from
his work.  I can't believe that the laws in Great Britain are very much
different.

If this company continues, then I suppose that we could restrict
distribution of our articles, so that they only go to North America,
South America, Asia, Africa, and the continent.  Perhaps this would piss
off the Brits enough that they would take legal action against this
company in Great Britain.

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Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6      kjh@usc.edu      ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh