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From: hymie@dvm.UUCP (Hyman Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,misc.legal,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Free software and Usenet articles on CompuServe
Message-ID: <321@dvm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 03:36:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: dvm.321
Posted: Sun Jul 19 03:36:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 19:42:56 EDT
References: <1369@cullvax.UUCP> <1147@csib.UUCP> <109@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: hymie@dvm.UUCP (Hyman Rosen)
Organization: Philon, Inc. (NY, NY)
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In article <109@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> grieggs@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (John T. Grieggs) writes:
>In article <1147@csib.UUCP> jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) writes:
>>>johnl@well.UUCP (John A. Limpert) writes:
>>>> Compuserve
>>>> has this strange notion that anything uploaded to their system cannot
>>>> be downloaded and redistributed.
>>Can
>>anyone offer a quote from Compuserve that suggests that there are restrictions
>>or is this all just hearsay?

I quote from 'Service Agreement Terms' in the CompuServe Starter Kit:

	6. Customer will not reproduce, sell, publish, or in any manner
	commercially exploit any information obtained through the Service
	or participate in or allow such reproduction, sale, publications
	or exploitation by any person.

	7. The provisions of paragraphs 5 and 6 are for the benefit of
	CompuServe and its data suppliers; any such data supplier shall
	have the right to assert and/or to enforce such provisions directly
	on its own behalf.

Obviously, this is intended to protect those suppliers that do NOT want
their data redistributed freely. I don't know whether CompuServe objects
to redistributing data when the supplier does want it spread about.
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								- Hymie

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