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From: pauly@zaphod.UUCP (Paul Yeager)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Dave Barry Copyright Flames
Message-ID: <255@zaphod.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 11:23:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 11:23:32 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 27-May-85 00:34:58 EDT
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Organization: Develcon Electronics, Saskatoon, SK
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I don't beleive we have much to fear in the way of prosecution
for reproducing Dave Berry articles on the net.  My arguments are as
follows:

	1. Few people buy newspapers *SOLELY* to read Dave's articles.

	2. A small percentage of the population has access to the net.

	3. By the time these articles get posted, they're a few days
           old.

	4. Considering the above, it is most unlikely that people will 
	   stop buying newspapers just because they can read Dave Barry
	   on USENET, etc.  So the Miami Herald can continue to 
	   syndicate Dave's work and get rich doing it, and aren't going
	   to bother the few thousand of us who read it on the net.
	   Their expensive lawyers have much better things to do.


P.S. As a Miamian trying to survive in small town Saskatchawan, I relish
the taste of home provided by posting of Dave Barry articles on the net.

Paul Yeager  UUCP:  inhp4!sask!zaphod!pauly


If you don't answer the question, we're going to have to gag you!!

			What question???

Gag him!!!