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Richard Sexton (richard@interlog.com) wrote:
:: Legal consensus is, when you post to usenet you
:: are implicitly giving permission to copy withing the
:: constraints of normal usenet operation. 
::
:: This includes copying your article onto every news server
:: on usenet and the resonable expectation exists that your
:: artiucle will be followed up with enought original material
:: to preserve context.
::
:: In other words you gave your permission when you hit
:: send.


Geoffrey Gies (bt351@torfree.net) comemnted:
: 	this is fine and good, and i believe implicitly understood.  but 
: is cbc* entitled to use usenet authors material without compensation in 
: lieu of budget cuts (or for that matter any other media outlet)?
: 	quoting within usenet is considered a courtesy and testament to 
: the content of the original authors material.  when this material is used 
: by an outside "for profit or compensation source", ie, any source where 
: participants receive compensation for their time, beit from taxpayer 
: dollars or advertising, should not the original usenet author equally 
: expect compensation?


 Richard Sexton is correct. As is Geoffery
 Gies. The mass media (broadcast television,
 radio, magazines, newspapers) obviously
 use the new Internet media such as Usenet
 or the WWW as material or critical source
 data. And yet the many authors of those
 new media works are given niether credit
 nor compensation. We slave away for nothing
 but love or hobbies while moguls and their 
 henchmen harvest the fruits of our labour.

 And yet, when authors on the new media
 utilize anything from mass media sources -
 from allegedly copyrighted words to Trade
 Mark images - we are visted by threatening
 letters and threats of crippling lawsuits.

 This situation demonstrates a number of
 things. First the new media are quickly
 becoming the true inspiration behind more
 and more of what passes for original content
 on the mass media. The infiltration of Internet
 bases content in the mass media is moving
 very rapidly.

 The second things show to us by the imbalance
 between Internet authors as source and Mass
 media raiders is that that the mass media
 are about to go suddenly and terrifically
 belly up. 

 The end of mass media? Yes. When mass media
 becomes fully dependant on we new media authors
 for content we will have won. Because we new
 media authors - and here is where money enters
 in - shall simply turn the tables with our new
 found power and generate content DIRECTLY to our
 audiences. And then - with new fortunes - every
 time our work is appropriated, "interpreted" or
 plagarized we will sue their fucking, corrupt
 asses off. And drive them further under by
 wiping out all of their discontented and
 underestimated audiences.

 More power to the people, babes!

                             Bob Allisat

   PO Box 191 Station E Toronto Canada M6H 4E2      (416) 588-0670



*cbc Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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