[comp.sys.amiga] CompuServes ?Rights?

tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM (Todd South) (02/19/88)

>   Compuserve claims a compilation copyright, i.e., a copyright on their
> entire collection of material as a whole.  They do not attempt to
> claim copyright ownership of individual items their customers place on
> the service.  This is easily verified by reviewing Compuserve's online
> copyright documentation.

        I would love to see CompuServe try to enforce this one on some systems
that I am on, and/or the one I run.  I know for a fact that a number of things
on certain sections of CompuServe were on my bbs, or others', first.  I wonder
what they would think if we instituted a compliation copyright and sued
CompuServe for blatantly violating it.

Todd South

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