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From: joeh@dartvax.UUCP (Joe Hill )
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Copyrights -- Dave Barry
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 04:52:08 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 19 04:52:08 1985
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> > On the contrary!  The note from the columnist does not constitute
> > "written permission."  First of all, the courts do not accept electronic
> > communications, except in some very clearly defined situations, to
> > be the same as hardcopy, signed documents.  But more importantly,
> > the columnist clearly stated that HE ISN'T THE ONE WHO CAN GIVE
> > OUT THE PERMISSION!  He said that he personally didn't care, but that
> > the people who owned the copyright, and would be the ones from whom
> > permission must be gained, most certainly did care.
> > 
> > --Lauren--
> 
> blah, blah, blah.
>      
>      You know what sparked this whole thing? I dug it out of author_copy and 
> decided I'd let you all look at it once again.
> >... spare us normal non-lawyer sorts an argument about copyrights. If its 
> >funny, its funny. If Dave Barry doesn't like it, let him sue. Let him sue me
> >first. He wont get any money out of me. Dartmouth College has it all. It'll
> >just be his legal fees and a lovely trip to downtown Hanover, NH that he
> >can write off against his income taxes....
>     This was never a flagrant touting of any laws. It was an attempt to stop
> brent and Brad Needham from bashing each other's c-shells together and taking
> the rest of net.jokes.d with em. It was sorta meant to avoid the argument 
> completely...lookit what happens!
>     Sorry. Next time I want to drop an issue I won't make an issue of it.
>                                              --Ross
> 
> p.s. And I hope Peter Merchant won't either! :-)
> -- 
> _____________________________________________________________________________
>                                            Ross Jacobs
>                                     {ihnp4,decvax,linus}!dartvax!rossj
>                                       ARPA:  rossj%dartmouth@csnet-relay
>                                      CSNET:  rossj@dartmouth
>  
>                Always be good. But if you can't be good, be careful...(-:
> ______________________________________________________________________________



04:55 19may85
Yawn, thanks all you dave berry people for giving me somthing
to read and thus stay awake as the spin of mag tapes tries to
put me away. Anyone want some coffee?
                            Tired joeh
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                           'Here comes the sun'
-- 
Joe Hill
	    
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