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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,misc.legal,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Free software and Usenet articles on CompuServe
Message-ID: <920@geac.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 08:38:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: geac.920
Posted: Thu Jul 16 08:38:04 1987
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In article <1369@cullvax.UUCP> drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
>Well, since you as user are bound by whatever contract you have with
>Compuserve, Compuserve can restrict you in any way you both agree to.
>(I.e., check your contract with Compuserve.)  Compuserve can't, of
>course, restrict third parties who aren't Compuserve customers, but
>then, they aren't downloading from Compuserve, are they?

  Uh... wrong question, Dale.  Try asking whether Compuserve can claim
copyright on material placed in its hands without the express or
implied approval of the owner of the original copyright.
  There are *several* other legal/philosophical question here not
dealt with in an agreement between Compuserve and a customer (ie, use
of a thing not owned by Compuserve). None of which I am going to try
to resolve.  Ask a lawyer-type person.

>(And why are these articles posed to comp.emacs?)
  Historical (histerical?) accident... Gnu Emacs.

 --dave (philosopher, not lawyer) brown
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