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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
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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 :-)

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