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From: trisha@oddjob.UUCP (Trisha O Tuama)
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Subject: Re: Dave Barry Copyright Flames
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Date: Sun, 26-May-85 18:55:14 EDT
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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.
> 
Yeah, Paul, I agree with you, but this reminds me of a long discussion
that when on last fall regarding the posting of Joe Bob's movie
columns and that didn't get us anywhere.

I agree with you.  

Trisha