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- From: slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
- Subject: Re: Distributing Top Ten Lists
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 09:07:32 GMT
- Organization: Bat Radar Studies, Berkeley
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- > mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
- >
- >I found a "shareware" database today on a local BBS that is all Top 10
- >lists. The compilers say the database is for "entertainment" only...
- >
- >Is this legal? These are actual David Letterman Top 10 lists <tm>.
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- Well, I get the SF Examiner and they are kind enough to print the previous
- night's Top Ten List. There appears to be no copyright to it. Instead at the
- bottom it says "Courtesy of NBC'. Sounds like there's no copyright, so the
- distribution is legal... I think....
-
- -Shelley "Ain't got no law degree" Louie
- "I took the law and threw it away"
-