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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Followup on "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" copyright problem
Message-ID: <464@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Jul-86 00:40:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: hadron.464
Posted: Wed Jul  9 00:40:09 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jul-86 05:13:48 EDT
References: <4652@sun.uucp> <1986Jul2.233539.3816@utcs.uucp>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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In article <1986Jul2.233539.3816@utcs.uucp> flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
[No attribution, but we all know it's Chuq]
>>Today I received a letter from Niven, which follows:
>Ha!  But did you ever worry about whether or not you were violating copyright
>to repost this letter and put it in the public domain??  :-)

Private correspondence is considered to be the property of
the addressee, who in this case has chosen to publish it
without any copyright attributions.

My [rhetorical] question:  did he make one copy, or 50,000?
Think about it.

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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
			jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)