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Re: Archiving mail-lists...
On Tue, 1 Feb 1994, Jim choate wrote:
> I have to admit that I have broken your fair use copyright notice
> inadvertantly.
>
> I have stored an image of your message in the ram on my system which is not a
> part of inet or usenet nor involved in any way with the transmission to other
> nodes of such stored material.
Are you claiming to have sold your RAM, while still powered, for a
profit? Knowing that it contained copyrighted work? Shame on you.
> Berne works great for paper, audio recordings, movies, etc. It does not work
> for networked information transmission.
I'm sorry, I didn not realize I was talking to a supreme court justice.
Had I known you had the ultimate authority on this subject, I would not
have been wasting your time, or mine.
Perhaps we should try this. You sell archives of the net, and we'll file
a class action suit... I'll back up my beliefs with actions, how about you?
-ck