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From: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Copyright by CompuServe??
Message-ID: <1333@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-May-86 11:08:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 19 11:08:37 1986
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Reply-To: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin)
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Keywords: Copyright by CompuServe

Perhaps the simplest way of bypassing CompuServe's copyright claim is 
to mark anything that you post with a 'public domain' or copyright 
notice of your own and explicitly allow copying. In their magazine, 
they stated that anything marked to allow distribution was ok to 
distribute.  Their attitiude is that the poster owns the work and that, 
strictly speaking, posting a copy is not equivalent to allowing 
unlimited redistribution. (Naturally they want everyone to pay them 
connect time fees for downloading files rather than make copies 
locally :-) 

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