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From: CC.GALVIN@R20.UTEXAS.EDU (Pete Galvin)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Copyright by CompuServe??
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Date: Fri, 16-May-86 23:15:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 16 23:15:16 1986
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According to my recent COMPUSERVE newsletter (a letter therein), CompuServe
is claiming just that...that all postings there are theirs.  As I understand
it (no, I'm not a lawyer), they can only claim the rights to the COLLECTION
as a whole, since they DON'T own the rights to all of the parts (programs,
etc).  As such, anyone can use any individual part(s) of the collection,
but not the whole thing.

At any rate, I doubt very strongly that they would have any recourse
at all if I downloaded a program from them in which the author claims
copyright (and allows free use of the program) and then uploaded it
to my favorite local bboards.

I haven't the foggiest if they can claim rights to any generic text a
user posts to their SIGs (i.e. no explicit copyright), as in the
list of patches to DOS 3.2, etc.

						--Pete
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