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  1. Newsgroups: soc.college
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uchinews!ellis!thf2
  3. From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
  4. Subject: Re: well..
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov21.195532.22117@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  7. Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
  8. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  9. References: <1992Nov18.225915.23507@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov20.140136.2441@gacvx2.gac.edu> <1992Nov21.032055.2889@Princeton.EDU>
  10. Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:55:32 GMT
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  12.  
  13. In article <1992Nov21.032055.2889@Princeton.EDU> rnoguchi@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ryan Alexander Noguchi) writes:
  14. >In article <1992Nov20.140136.2441@gacvx2.gac.edu> 
  15. >censtad@perdita.gac.edu (Christopher B Enstad) writes:
  16. >[...]
  17. >>I'd like to see the law you quote so much which one is it that makes it  
  18. >>illegal to copy and reprint public statements with the name of the person  
  19. >                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  20. >>who made the comments included?  Is it the same one that keeps the  
  21. >>newspapers from reprinting Presidential speeches?  Oh, I forgot, there  
  22. >>isn't one.
  23. >
  24. >I too am interested in seeing the law regarding implicit copyright of
  25. >private mail, but to be fair, the law he cites concerns *private*
  26. >email, not *public* statements.  Let's not be too eager to post a
  27. >"clever" flame that isn't relevant to the situation.
  28.  
  29. Check out the news.announce.newusers FAQ.  Which, hypothetically,
  30. everyone is supposed to have read before posting to the net.
  31. -- 
  32. ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
  33. standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
  34. the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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