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From: roger@celtics.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Copyright status of the netnews software
Message-ID: <1469@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 18:02:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 18:02:34 1987
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Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Organization: Celerity Computing (Eastern Region), Framingham, MA
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In article <527@spdcc.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>I can appreciate the use of a copyright to keep netnews freely available;
>however, there is already precedent for this with the mod.sources cookbook,
>which is copyrighted by the USENET Community Trust.
>-- 
...which I think is a fabrication.  There is NO legal entity either named, 
or doing business as, the USENET Community Trust, is there?  (No flames - 
I'm not certain this is true, but I'd be surprised if there is one.)  
If there is not, the copyright notice is worthless.
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