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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 19:46:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 19:46:00 1986
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> Material posted to USENET is the copyright
> property of the poster under U.S. statute.

How can that be?  If I post something here, copyright means I have the
right to control copies.  But the very nature of the Net implies massive
copying out of my control, and I know that.  So, haven't I given
implicit privileges to others, merely by posting?

Let me ask a different way.  At what point has someone who saves my news
posting committed a copyright violation?  In saving it?  Giving it to a
friend?  Reposting it with changes?  Where do you draw the line?

Alan Silverstein