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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Macintosh testifies in court...
Message-ID: <2927@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 16:24:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: ism780c.2927
Posted: Fri Jul 18 16:24:43 1986
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References: <451@hplabsc.UUCP> <2389@phri.UUCP> <21@paladin.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA
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In article <21@paladin.UUCP> bobg@paladin.UUCP (Bob Goldberg) writes:
>	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?).
>
Right.

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

There is no problem with discussing copyrighted stuff.  There is a problem
with copying coyrighted stuff.  So, for example, I can say "The movie
reviewer for the L.A. times did not like _The_Attack_of_the_50_foot_
Corn_from_Iowa_, because he said it was just a remake of _Giant_Devolved_
Pickles_from_Ohio_", and start a discussion on the net.  But I can't
say "Here is a review from the L.A. Times" and post the entire review.
-- 
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