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From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Theft of Copyrighted Material
Message-ID: <185@cubsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 10:21:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 10:21:00 1984
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I'm not sure which posting the original complainer was complaining
about -- but it might have been my request in net.music for the
words to the first verse of "Coca Cola Cowboy."  In the request
I gave the words I *do* know, question-marks for blanks, and
asked anyone who does know them to mail them to me (no response yet).

If this was the motivation for the complaint, then the complaint is
baseless.  The issue is whether the copyright owner was deprived of
income because of the posting.  A little thought reveals not.  It seems
to me to be perfectly OK to ask people for words to a song, rather
than go out and buy the sheet music or record -- and I believe it's
legally OK, too.

Then again, maybe he was complaining about something else... but the
complaint is pretty cryptic without a reference.

{philabs,cmcl2!rocky2}!cubsvax!peters            Peter S. Shenkin 
Dept of Biol. Sci.;  Columbia Univ.;  New York, N. Y.  10027;  212-280-5517