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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Plagiarism?
Message-ID: <4272@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 23 May 89 10:19:50 GMT
References: <2938@buengc.BU.EDU>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <2938@buengc.BU.EDU>, ho@buengc.BU.EDU (Yue-shun E. Ho) writes:
> It occurs to me that a certain mailing group is publishing selected Usenet
>   articles in their digests without the authorizations from the original
>   posters, although the name of the newsgroup and those of the authors
>   are mentioned.  I wonder if this is acceptable and/or legal.

Yes and yes. In fact for some sites usenet is accessed entirely through
mail. News/mailing-list gateways abound. Just because a person chooses to
select what messages go through the gateway doesn't change anything.

> Are Usenet articles copyrighted in any way?

Five pounds of flax.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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