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From: barber@rabbit1.UUCP (Steve Barber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Query about MINIX news group on CompuServe
Message-ID: <323@rabbit1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 18:10:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: rabbit1.323
Posted: Thu Jul  2 18:10:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 08:58:53 EDT
References: <1511@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Rabbit Software Corp., Malvern PA
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Summary: Gateway to CompuServe probably not a good idea

Correct me if I'm wrong, but gatewaying ANYTHING with CompuServe
may be more trouble than it's worth.  CompuServe has a very strange
concept of copyright (basically they claim that anything uploaded to
their system is their copyright!), and the service agreement states

"Customer will not reproduce, sell, publish, or in any manner commercially
 exploit any information obtained through the Service...."

Now obviously many people "commercially exploit" the information
(otherwise why would anyone use the Stock Quoting service?), but
why risk potential legal hassles over the "reproduce" part of the
agreement?


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Steve Barber    Rabbit Software Corp.
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