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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Charging the net...
Message-ID: <o2qm22w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 8 May 91 13:23:23 GMT
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gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu (root@research.bdi.com (Systems Research Supervisor)) writes:
>    But if a copyright holder posts the copyrighted work, he implicitly
> authorizes copies to be made on every site receiving the particular
> group, given the automated nature of news feeds. Further copying may
> be restricted by the terms of the copyright, but it can't dictate the
> fair use of the implicitly authorized copies.

Right. But what is "fair use" for a news article?  Reading it, yes; but
decoding it to obtain a program?


mathew