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Subject: Article Copyrights
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Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 01:48:02 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 01:48:02 1987
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The scare about stargate redistribution prohibitions has had an unfortunate
side effect...a lot of people are now putting needlessly restrictive
copyright notices on all their postings. Often the wording is so restrictive
that, for instance, a magazine, journal, book or other publication would
not be able to quote the material. I doubt that this is intended, so I
suggest you think about making sure that general use is allowed. Why not?
Look at Byte's listings of interesting BIX material; if all those people
put restrictive copyright notices in there, the only effect would be that
their postings would reach a smaller audience. This benefits no one.

Maybe some experienced person out there could suggest a nice generic
notice that everybody could use that was not overly restrictive.
	Doug Merritt       ucbvax!ingres!hatcher