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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI
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Date: 6 Mar 91 08:09:52 GMT
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In article <1991Mar5.210338.5356@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
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<The cost of trying to filter thousands of these copyright restricted
<articles out overwhelmed any value of restricting distribution of the
<collections.
[...]
<Copyright 1991 by Kent Paul Dolan, P.O. Box 390755, Mountain View,
<California 94039-0755.  May be freely copied or quoted, with this
<notice intact, in any freely redistributable collection of news
<postings.  Inclusion of this article in a collection of postings
<constitutes a contract by the collector that the collection is
<freely redistributable by all recipients.

I agree that PSI is being unreasonable.  But you can't claim copyright
violations.  *You're* causing your article to be included "in a collection
of postings"; no one is asking for it.  You sent it out over the wires--
and into software which you knew would accept it.  Of course, you may try
to sue people who violate your "copyright" (assuming, of course, that you
have indeed obtained a copyright on each article you post--damn, you get
rapid service from the copyright office!), but I'll lay odds against you.

					--Scott

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