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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Posting software from Compuserve
Message-ID: <812@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 20:33:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: gould9.812
Posted: Wed Oct  8 20:33:32 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Oct-86 06:30:23 EDT
Organization: Western Software Technology, Vista, CA
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According to October 6, 1986 InfoWorld:
	   Compuserve Information Service has threatened a bulletin
	board operator with legal action for offering on his board
	public domain programs he obtained on-line from Compuserve.
	   Compuserve, a common source for public domain programs,
	said it considered the entire contents of its service to be
	copyrighted, a pokciy that caused user outcry when it was
	first adopted last year....
	   [The BBS operator] received a registered letter from
	Compuserve's attorneys stating that he was infringing on
	Compuserve's copyright.  The letter threatened him with
	civil and criminal action...

This is a good example of why I subscribe to USENET and not to
Compuserve.

Now if I just don't get a letter from InfoWorld. :-)
-- 
	Joel West			     MCI Mail: 282-8879
	Western Software Technology, POB 2733, Vista, CA  92083
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