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From: steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Copyrights and the Net (was: MacsBug available on Compuserve...)
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Date: 26 May 89 02:41:57 GMT
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jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) writes:
>[MacsBug not available on the InterNet] has to do with the fact that
>Compuserve, Genie, and AppleLink all keep records of who have
>downloaded software from them and guarantee that folks see a license
>agreement from Apple before they download.  The US Copyright office
>says that if you are to maintain your copyright you have to maintain
>control over who receives your software.

This, and several other postings from Apple employees, have led me
to worry about the status of free- or shareware, but still copyrighted,
programs that are posted to the net (comp.binaries.mac and
info-mac@sumex-aim.arpa).  Are those of us who post programs here in
danger of losing our copyrights over them?