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From: eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Maps Subverted
Keywords: short term, long term, database, sabotage, commercialism, bullshit
Message-ID: <230@egsner.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 02:10:59 GMT
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Reply-To: eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen)
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In article <11356@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
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-would it be reasonable that the map coordinator for a particular region
-could own a "compilation copyright" on the data for that region?
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-< David Herron; an MMDF guy                              <david@ms.uky.edu>
-< ska: David le casse\*'      {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
-< The problem with mnemonics is they mean different things to different people.

	I have always thought that the compilation copyright for all
things on the net should belong to the "USENET Community Trust", the
amorphous thing that currently holds the copyrights on Elm, and other
goodies on the net.

	Just my $0.02 worth,
-- 
Eric Schnoebelen
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