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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
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Date: 6 Feb 90 20:19:45 GMT
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I too am very much interested in the issue of copyrights in the issue of
shareware. What I have seen so far indicates that public distribution or
third party distribution with knowledge and without protest implies consent
for anyone subscribing to that distribution medium to own a copy.

That is, say Joe writes a book and hands it to Bill.  Joe watches while Bill
makes a copy for Jack. Unless Joe complains, Jack now owns his copy.

The same may not apply to Usenet. I suspect that it does, but I'd be interested
if anyone could post any specific cases.

Sean
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