Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!eos!labrea!polya!crew@Polya.Stanford.EDU From: crew@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Roger Crew) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Yes, I can sell a jokebook via USENET. Message-ID: <5322@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 29 Nov 88 07:08:23 GMT References: <2391@looking.UUCP> <79090@sun.uucp> Sender: crew@polya.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: crew@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Roger Crew) Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Dept. Lines: 26 In-reply-to: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) In article <79090@sun.uucp>, chuq%plaid (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > > First, *legally* Brad can do whatever he wants with those jokes. They were > posted, in the public domain, to an open forum. If he wants to collect them > and publish them, he's welcome to. Public domain means just that -- free and > clear to any comer. Now here's a thought: It's public domain, so by this reasoning ANYONE could have been sitting out there collecting all of the postings to rec.humor.funny. For that matter, anyone could STILL do it. I wonder how annoyed Brad would be if someone else put out a r.h.f book (not all that much, I suspect...) What I REALLY wonder is how long it will be before someone decides to try this with some other group. I'm sure a compilation of, say, soc.singles postings would do quite well as a mass-market paperback; it might take a bit of creative editing, but I'm sure you can see the possibilities... Just a small matter of talking to my friends in the publishing business. If only I were running an archive site. 7/8 :-) -- Roger Crew Copyright 1988 -- All Rights Reserved. (so there!) Usenet: {arpa gateways, decwrl, uunet, rutgers}!polya.stanford.edu!crew Internet: crew@polya.Stanford.EDU