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From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Digital Information Rights
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Date: 30 Nov 88 17:59:48 GMT
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Somebody mentioned a case where a journal publisher wouldn't provide
the ascii form of their articles.  Has anybody had any experience with
IEEE or ACM on this issue?  They say "permission is granted to make a
few copies, not for profit", but would they allow the ascii versions of
the articles to be posted to the net?  What if the author wanted to
post it?  Do the groups hold the sole copyright?

It seems that since these are non-profit organizations, they shouldn't
mind, but maybe this sort of thing would eventually reduce their paper
circulation enough that they would have to raise rates.

	Wayne