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From: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Crossposting from CompuServe (was: format 923K and cold boot programs)
Message-ID: <3687@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 15:17:30 EST
Article-I.D.: ptsfa.3687
Posted: Wed Oct 28 15:17:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 09:01:55 EST
References: <769@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <310@mks.UUCP> <1212@water.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin)
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>In article <310@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
>>In article <769@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, lean@sbcs (Lean L. Loh) writes:
>>... The fine print in the CompuServe contract says that
>>"Customer will not reproduce, sell, publish, or in any manner commercially
>>exploit any information obtained through the Service...". ...
>>goodies downloaded from CIS can't be reproduced by posting them
>>to bulletin boards or usenet.

This was a source of much controversy on CompuServe and the net a while
ago. The consensus is that anything that CompuServe owns is governed
by the contract. Anything that someone else owns (or places in the
public domain) is not. 

A slight complication: CompuServe reserves the same right that others
use when they print a collection of stories.  If I've remembered 
correctly, this means that I can repost single items but not, 
for example, all the commentary posted in a CompuServe SIG.

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