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From: lori@hacgate.scg.hac.com (Lori Barfield)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,news.groups
Subject: Re: rec.arts.startrek.info - a moderator proposal and then some
Message-ID: <6517@hacgate.scg.hac.com>
Date: 19 Dec 89 18:31:15 GMT
References: <20771@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <32698@cci632.UUCP> <1989Dec19.140829.23751@talos.uu.net>
Reply-To: lori@hacgate.UUCP (Lori Barfield)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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>Tom Frauenhofer writes (about reprinting copyrighted Star Trek stuff on net):
> > Be careful - this stuff is copyrighted.
>
In article <1989Dec19.140829.23751@talos.uu.net> kjones@talos.uu.net writes:
>Very good point; if I were moderating I wouldn't touch these.  [...]

Excerpts made for purposes of review do not violate copyrights.  Full
reprints are a no-no without permission (hey, they gotta make a living too).
Use this rule of thumb:  Have you duplicated so much of the original
publication that your readers won't want to go buy their own to read
further?  Or have you just printed enough to highlight the interesting
parts so they can tell whether it's worth the $$?

I'd like to read rec.arts.startrek, but I just can't keep up with it.
The proposed newsgroup has my support.  There is a very clear line
between discussion (the original group) and announcements or non-editorial
reviews of published information (the proposed group).


...lori