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From: emv@umix.UUCP (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Copyright by CompuServe??
Message-ID: <138@umix.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-May-86 17:01:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: umix.138
Posted: Sun May 11 17:01:59 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 13-May-86 03:27:12 EDT
References: <111@druri.UUCP> <661@nicmad.UUCP> <182@rocky2.UUCP> <672@nicmad.UUCP> <610@kepler.UUCP>
Reply-To: emv@umix.UUCP (Edward Vielmetti)
Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor
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Keywords: Copyright by CompuServe
Summary: what's the world coming to

Morris Jones (mojo@kepler.UUCP) reports that CompuServe has explicitly
reserved copyright to all information that you get from them, and that
you may not copy or retransmit said information.

I am not doubting his authority (after all he's a sysop there), but
I do doubt the legality of this approach.  What it seems to mean to me
is that any software that I have written that I upload to CompuServe
I lose my rights to; that whatever I say on a CompuServe forum I assign
CompuServe the exclusive rights to, ad nauseum.

As a sysop, I for one will abide by this rule for what it's worth: nil.

(c) 1986 Edward M. Vielmetti, All rights reserved.
(Actually, I'm doing this at work, so it's probably (c) The Regents
of the University of Michigan, though they don't know that.)

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