Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:1548 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:5397 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!fauern!faui44!dkhusema@faui49.UUCP From: dkhusema@faui49.UUCP (Dirk Husemann (Inf4 - hiwi),0.058I4,7908,09131-302036) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: SF columnist on the Worm, suggests new terminology. Message-ID: <735@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Date: 17 Nov 88 11:03:47 GMT References: <47235@pyramid.pyramid.com> Sender: nntp@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Lines: 36 From article <47235@pyramid.pyramid.com>, by csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst): > In article <457@gonzo.UUCP> daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes: >>Jon Carrol's Wednesday column in the SF Chronicle is an interesting >>example of the level of "popular journalism". > > And Dave's posting is an interesting example of copyright violation. It is > AGAINST THE LAW (to say nothing of highly inethical) to reprint coyrighted > works without the permission of the copyright holder. Newspaper articles are > no exception. I'm not so sure about that: At least in West Germany the copyright laws state that news (as printed in newspaper articles) receive protection only for a very limited time (~ 2 days or so). As West Germany signed the international copyright treaty, I can imagine that this rule originates there. The USA did sign this treaty recently, also, thus it could be the case that the copyright protection for news is restricted in the US also! > > I asked Dave (via e-mail) to cancel the posting; he refused. I have cancelled > it myself. Might have been a little bit too early ... > > ------------------ Smile, tomorrow will be worse! -------------- Email: dkhusema@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Or: {pyramid,unido}!fauern!faui44!dkhusema Mail: Dirk Husemann, Aufsess-Str. 19, D-8520 Erlangen, (Home) West Germany (Busi- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Computer Science Dep., ness) IMMD IV, Martensstr. 1, D-8520 Erlangen, West Germany Phone: (Home) +49 9131 302036, (Business) +49 9131 857908 -- Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here! -- --------------- My opinions are mine, mine, mine ---------------