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From: tar@hou5g.UUCP (Tim Rock)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: legalities
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 07:32:34 EST
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I feel there is a more serious potential for a lawsuit
where copy rights are violated then "fairness" on the
network. I've seen so many cases where recipes are taken 
from cookbooks, source code submitted, magazine articles
copied. This may have been commonly accepted because of
the ease in which floppies and paper can be replicated.

The difference here is that a record of the crime is
available. 

I'm sure that the company that allowed this to happen
would be libel, but would the companies that passed this
along be too?

We've been fortunate up til  now because the victums do not 
subscribe to this network. If they did I'm sure we would have
seen a test case.

		Tim Rock AT&T Information Systems