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From: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: clarifying the Copyright Law [forwarded. please archive for FTP-access]
Message-ID: <452@ucsfcca.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 23:28:19 EST
Article-I.D.: ucsfcca.452
Posted: Tue Mar 11 23:28:19 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Mar-86 05:37:45 EST
References: <1050@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski)
Organization: UCSF Computer Center
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In article <1050@brl-smoke.ARPA> CMP.WERNER@r20.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>
>COPYRIGHT LAW (Copyright 1986 Breslow)
>
>is which.  Incidentally, if you read this entire essay,
>you will be able to determine whether or not the essay
>is copyrighted and whether or not you can make a
>printout of it.
>
I read the whole thing and it seemed to make sense, but in order
to read it, I had to make a copy on my terminal.  That would seem
to be proscribed by the copyright notice.  To clarify that and to
inquire about forwarding (as in this particular posting to which
I respond) and automatic gatewaying to other networks etc, I 
called Mr. Breslow.  He responded that the first point, my copy
to my screen, was permitted by his granting of an "implied right"
for such copying by virtue of his (or his wife's) posting in the
first place.  I have no experience with the granting of implied
rights and inquired further.  The discussion got more and more
murky and we finished our telephone conversation without any
clear conclusion.  Can anyone else shed further light on the
implications of posting copyrighted works?  Possibly the only
answer is to wait for the next 50 years of copyright case law.

Dick

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