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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.wobegon
Subject: Re: The capitalist swine!
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 10:23:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 10:23:59 1985
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> True, they want us to buy their versions of these products. On the other
> hand, Minnesota Public Radio is (still) a nonprofit organization, and 
> in any case the material does belong to them. If you'd written it, you'd 
> feel the same way. It's already ridiculously easy to pirate the material;
> all you need is a tape recorder.

Yes, I would feel that way.  Being a "public" radio station, they
are allowed to use other peoples' copyrighted material without
the authors' permission.  My source: a friend who says that a composer
friend of his had his music appropriated for a WNET-TV program without
his permission or any royalty payments.