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In article <567rkr$f@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
Darrell A. Larose <ad607@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:

>I read the copyright act, and email is not mentioned in the act so you may
>not have much to go on. 

Sigh. All these armchair lawyers. emai lis not specifically mentioned.

It doesnt need to be. Whenever an expression takes physical form
a copyright is automatically implied. Do you really believe if somebody
invents a new communications medium tomorrow you can place
all sorts of copyrighted material there and because this new
media isn't mentioend in the copyright act you can get away
with it? It is to laugh.

>and email, where the author pointed out that little can be done about it.

Heh. Right.

>No wonder the Courts are so bogged down with all these frivolous lawsuits.


There is no Canadina court precedent, yet, for "posting email to usenet".

Perhaps there needs to do one. Perhaps I'm the person to do it.

How would you like it, if, for wxample, sombody raided your mailbox and posted
oh, I dunno, steamy love letters you received, to usenet?

>You have hundreds of pages on the USA copyright act, the Berne Convention
>and the Canadian Copyright Act. But the only mention of email wasn't a law
>it was just an item on netiquette. You and others on your site (vrx.net)
>are well known as spammers, which IMHO is worse than posting an email.

You really havn't got a clue, do you? First, "spam" is not the
same as excessing crossposting which is *I think* you're
referirng to. ECP is in the eye of the beholder. In the bad
old days, it was any message posted to more than 3 groups.
There days, 10 or 20 seem to be contemporaneous. Nonetheless
this is irrelavent to the discussin at hand.

As for your other "point" pehaps you missed:

http://www.vrx.net/copyright/article2.html
http://www.vrx.net/copyright/article3.html

it spells it out quite plainly.

>Maybe you should get off the Infohighway anyhow? ;-)

Think again. You're using a free account. I own my piece of the
highway :-)

-- 
Richard Sexton
richard@alter.nic            When good enough isn't good enough
richard@vrx.net