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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Posting software from Compuserve
Message-ID: <337@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 11:36:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  9 11:36:06 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Oct-86 00:44:23 EDT
References: <812@gould9.UUCP>
Organization: Brain-Dead Software
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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...

What is CompuServe's policy when the stuff posted on CompuServe
was posted by people who obtained the stuff from another net?
E.g., if someone took Grep-Wc from Usenet/Delphi and put in
on CompuServe, I wouldn't be real thrilled about CompuServe
asserting hegemony over MY software.

Maybe I should copyright it, and then sue 'em!  :-)
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