Re: A Legal Web Page Issue

["L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>]

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Tim May writes:
> Someone on the Cyberia mailing list has announced that his URL on
> legal matters (http://www.commlaw.com/pepper) can only be accessed by
> sites which charge a "flat rate." I'm not at all clear what he means
> by a flat rate here....is is flat rate per month, or per access, or
> what?
[...]
> So, give it a browse and add it if you find it interesting. When he
> sees a bunch of accesses (assuming his system has logs he can look at)
> from sites over which he cannot possibly hope to set policy for, he
> may realize the futility of this.

The text of the actual copyright notice seems to have a much friendlier slant.
It resembles a GNU or FSF-type freeware license. Apparently you're just not
allowed to charge *more* than a flat fee:

- From the bottom of the cited Web page:
"Copyright 1994 by Pepper & Corazzini, L.L.P. All rights reserved. 
Reproduction is permitted so long as no charge is made for copies, no copies
are placed on any electronic online service or database for which there is a
fee other than a flat access charge, there is no alteration and this 
copyright notice is included."

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  to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and 
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