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From: bobc@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bob Calbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: copyrights in graphics
Keywords: legalities
Message-ID: <8095@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 13 May 89 17:55:01 GMT
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This seems to be the most appropriate place to ask this.  

I've seen a number of GIF pictures lately of such things as
centerfolds from Playboy and a few other men's magazines.  I
myself am planning on producing a number of files that would 
be derived from assorted publication and would like to know if
it was necessary for the creators of the other files that are
floating around to get permission to distribute these?  Or are
they depending on anonimity to avoid legal hassles? 

I realize that they are generally distributed without profit as
a motive, but I don't think that that would hold any legal water.

What's the scoop?  Anyone?

Bob
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