Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!brendan From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Subject: Re: copyright status and future development of comp.archives Message-ID: <2X8=F1Q@cs.widener.edu> Date: 24 Jun 91 13:19:29 GMT References: <1991Jun24.001311.11155@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> Organization: Widener CS Dept Lines: 18 oz@nexus.yorku.ca wrote: >>in the near future, postings to comp.archives are going to be tagged >>with an explicit copyright notice. > >I could be wrong, but since the comp.archives service can be >re-created without any copyrights, it really does not matter. I would wager that trying to re-create it would be far from trivial. Similar issues have come up before (rec.humor.funny, comp.compilers, etc) but they've been worked out, too. The actual information itself isn't copyrighted; rather, the way it's presented, stored, and accessed is covered (similar to a compilation copyright on a CD full of periodicals). -- Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone