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From: roy@phri.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Macintosh testifies in court...
Message-ID: <2389@phri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jul-86 17:14:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: phri.2389
Posted: Mon Jul 14 17:14:17 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jul-86 04:57:52 EDT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Summary: Another copyright infringement, this time in a mod group

In article <451@hplabsc.UUCP> hplabs!taylor writes:
[An interesting article about a MacIntosh computer used in a courtroom.]
> (above, without permission, from A+ Magazine, August '86, page 16,
> column News and Views, by Frederic E. Davis)

	Since the recent brou-ha about the "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex"
story posted to net.comics (I think that's where it was), I've been more
atune to the posting of copyrighted material.  I was somewhat surprised to
see the above-quoted article this morning in, of all places, a moderated
news group.

	I don't know why people think that citing a source and then adding
"reprinted without permission" makes it all right to violate copyright.
If I steal some money from you, but then am careful to let people know who
it really belongs to when I spend it, have I lessened the crime any?

	Why am I especially surprised to see it in a moderated group?  One
of the reasons people are pushing mod groups (although not the major
advantage over net groups in my opinion) is so when (and if) stargate
becomes a reality, there will be somebody at the controls to prevent
exactly this sort of bad posting practice that might cause legal problems.

-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016