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From: webb@leadsv.UUCP (J.J. Webb)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: compilation copyright question
Keywords: poster's rights
Message-ID: <5982@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 21:48:50 GMT
Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca.
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novice question.

Suppose I post a poem, program, funny story, etc. and affix a
copyright statement to it. Now, comes along a [moderator, a
compilation guru, a collector, historian, etc.] and includes something
that I've posted in his/her [joke book, poetry collection, history
book, etc.] and declares a compilation copyright. She/He starts selling
a printed version for $9.95 and an electronic version for $8-$9/hr
connect time. If he/she didn't get my permission, aren't my rights
being violated? Nothing I read, when I first started rn_ing, said
anything about a moderator (or anybody else) "collecting" and compiling
information and using it to generate revenue (for any reason).

novice question 2.

If this kind of compilation copyright is legitimate, and moderators
and information collectors are allowed to steal people's work, art,
etc. on the pretext that "it takes to time to compile all this and 
therefore I should be compensated" .. then shouldn't the newuser 
announcement contain a VERY PROMINENT WARNING to that effect?


                ...jjwebb...