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From: reid@decwrl.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Copyright status of the netnews software
Message-ID: <8332@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 18:10:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 27 18:10:52 1987
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Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
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In article <1469@celtics.UUCP> roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese) writes:
>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.

The USENET Community Trust is a registered DBA in Santa Clara County
California, proprietor Brian K. Reid (that's me). I spent $70 of my own money
getting it set up. It exists solely for the purpose of holding the copyright,
of course, and does not do any business, but as you point out, if the
organization does not exist the copyright is worthless.

Brian