is813cs@pyr.gatech.EDU (Cris Simpson) (12/10/88)
About a month ago, I mentioned a case where a user sued the
sysop of a pay BBS for divulging info from her files.
I recently found my copy of the suit. It is about 15K long.
If you are interested, send me mail. If there is sufficient interest,
I will post it, if not, I will mail it out.
cris
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Cris Simpson
is813cs@pyr.gatech.edu GA Tech Atlanta,GA
...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!is813csbraun@drivax.UUCP (Karl T. Braun (kral)) (12/16/88)
I had a talk with our corporate attorney re: copyrights, who owns what, etc.
It seems that the rules are changing. Currently, if you don't explicitly state
a copyright, then your ownership is questionable. However, according to a law
signed by Reagan sometime in the last few weeks ("The Berne Act", or some
such), copyright will be implied on all written material.
Furthermore, he says that anything "published" in a public forum, which these
newsgroups certainly are, will be protected by this law, whether or not you
have the copyright notice stated in the article.
Email, which is not a published work, is and has always been the property of
the author. As to the status of the work with respect to the machines which
pass along this work and machines on which these works were created, etc, I'm
still looking into that.
Stay tuned...
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