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From: vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: USSR International Computer Club (was: Information on the ICC)
Keywords: illegal activities
Message-ID: <6007@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 31 Jan 89 23:24:33 GMT
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In article <2825@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
)In practice, Usenet as a whole is in legal limbo.  We don't know if it's
)a broadcaster or a common carrier, we don't know if it's like speaking or
)publishing, we don't know what the rules really are.  (Anyone who thinks
)they do know: please refer me to the court decison where it's been
)declared officially).
)- Joe Buck	jbuck@epimass.epi.com, or uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck,

	Usenet is in legal limbo, particularly with regards to braodcaster
or common carrier.  It *is* fairly clear that it is more like publishing
than speaking (in the sence that it would be a libel case rather than
a slander case.)  If you really wish I can dig up references to that
point in that direction (though I'll admit that the courts could ignore
the presidents and go the other way.  I just think that it is *extremely*
unlikely.)


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