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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.

: You really havn't got a clue about this, do you ?

	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?

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: Richard Sexton
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