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From: dorner@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Posting software from Compuserve
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Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 13:50:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 11 13:50:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!dorner    Oct 11 12:50:00 1986


I subscribe to GEnie (which is MUCH cheaper than Compuserve, but seems to
have all the things I'm looking for).  There has been a big discussion there
about the Compuserve "copyright".  Evidently, Compuserve does not claim to
have copyright to the programs themselves, but only their COLLECTION of them.
They are claiming (correctly or not) that if you get it from C-serve, you
are not allowed to redistribute it.  But if you get the same program from
somewhere else, the fact that it is also on Compuserve does not deny you the
right to distribute it.

I doubt that any single package would bring the ire of compuserve on someone.
What they don't want to happen is exactly what seems to have happened with
this BBS operator--someone downloading x zillion bytes of stuff from C-serve
and then reposting it on his BBS.  He even said, (evidently) "I got this
from Compuserve."

I'm not trying to justify C-serve's policy (seems a little fishy to me), but
I did want to make it clear that they aren't claiming copyright to every
package put there, just to their collection of them.
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Steve Dorner
University of Illinois Computing Services Office
dorner@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU, ihnp4!cbosgd!uiucdcs!uxc!dorner

I am the OFFICIAL SPOKESMAN not only of UIUC, but of the State of Illinois,
The President of the United States, and the EMPEROR of the WORLD.  All my
decisions are final.