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From: bass@dmsd.UUCP (John Bass)
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Subject: Re: Should the Usenet/UUCP maps have ex
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 13:18:34 EST
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> > > >	Gordon Burditt
> > >	Mark Horton
> > 	John Bass
> 
> 	author even if (s)he didn't include a copyright notice.  Brian
> 	presumably used a phrase something like "thus copyright is held
> 	by the Usenet Community" to summarize this though I don't
> 	remember exactly.  Now John seems to think that Brian is
> 	setting up some kind of corporation called the "Usenet
> 	Community".
> 
> 	CAVEAT:  if there was further discussion on this in mod.recipes
> 		 I won't have seen it. 
> 
> Phew!  Sorry this turned out so longwinded.
> 
> Could we all please try to *READ* each others submissions and use our brains.
> -- 
> From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
> msc@saber.uucp,  sun!saber!msc@decwrl.dec.com ...{ihnp4,sun}!saber!msc
> "Boards are long and hard and made of wood"

The copyright must be held by some LEGAL entity -- IE a person, partnership,
corporation, or government -- thus since the I doubt that "USENET Community"
is the name of a person then there must/can be a non-person entity which
holds the copyright under that name. I presumed that someone setup a
non-profit or not-for-profit corporation -- otherwise the copyright phrase
is void. If someone did/does set such a thing up then WHO controls the
assets and how are they to be used if the corporation is disbanded. I know
of several cases were several people have done quite well on the assets of
a disbanded/mis-used non-profit public service corporation.

So the question stands AND the issue remains ....

John Bass