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From: bobg@paladin.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Macintosh testifies in court...
Message-ID: <21@paladin.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 17:55:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: paladin.21
Posted: Tue Jul 15 17:55:36 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jul-86 22:29:45 EDT
References: <451@hplabsc.UUCP> <2389@phri.UUCP>
Organization: PC Distributing Inc., Northbrook  IL
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Summary: what should we talk about on the net?

In article <2389@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP writes:
> 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)
> 
> 	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?
> 

	In todays world, almost anything worth discussing is 
copyrighted. If we were to gather in an informal group and discussed the
matter, that would be no violation of copyright (right?).

	If we can't discuss copyrighted topics on the net,
just what CAN we talk about, without fear from legal action?

	I don't like writing this letter, but it seems to be one of
the few letters open only to verbal abuse, not legal abuse.
(I would rather use the net as an information database of sorts)

	Can't we just say the acticle from A+ Magazine is posted as
reference material? - Isn't siting the source and author sufficient?

	I might be living in my own little world, but I would appreciate
it if someone could explain to me what is so wrong here.

			thanks for your time,
			Bob Goldberg


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