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Article #3325Re: PD applications on GENIE / EMPIRE Version 3.0 for the ST.
From: Greg Lindahl
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1989 17:05
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1989 17:05
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In article <752@lzaz.ATT.COM> hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
>> [ about someone getting good files from Genie and sending them to
Usenet... ]
>I think the GENIE agreement procludes this, as the Collection of pd on
>GENIE is copyright by GENIE.
A compilation copyright doesn't change copyrights on the files. So it
is entirely legal to post *individual* files from Genie to the net, because
those files are covered by whatever copyright their author put on them.
What is illegal is making an archive only containing *exactly* what
Genie has, by downloading from Genie. That would be a *compilation* of
programs identical to Genie's compilation, and hence you would be
using their intellectual effort of compiling their collection to
compile yours.
I'm not a lawyer, so I could be totally wrong. But this issue has been
argued about several times before, here and elsewhere.
-- greg
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Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu I'm not the NRA.
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