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From: msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Should the Usenet/UUCP maps have ex
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 14:27:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 27 14:27:00 1986
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A while back I wrote:
> > 	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.
John Bass replied:
> 
> The copyright must be held by some LEGAL entity -- IE a person, partnership,

You still aren't *reading* the article.  The copyright is held (according
to Brian)  by the individual authors.  Collectively, for simplicity, they
were referred to as the "usenet community" which indeed they are.

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