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From: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Posting software from Compuserve
Message-ID: <1004@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 16:33:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekig4.1004
Posted: Fri Oct 10 16:33:23 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 21:33:36 EDT
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Reply-To: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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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....

This is interesting, as many public domain programs have notices specifically
PROHIBITING anyone else to claim ANY rights to that work. . .

I'd just love to see CompuServe try this in court.

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc. (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
                (No others need apply, though)