[comp.ivideodisc] multi-user cd-rom applications

currie@alumni.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Currie) (12/13/90)

  I am designing a multi-user system that will include several reference
materials on cd-rom (e.g.,dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas). I have
many questions but will only ask one now: What can i expect in terms
of licensing agreements with the publishers of this material? The
spectrum (so far) ranges from a simple site license to buying a copy
of the disc for every _potential_ user! (quite a cost difference!)

  What complicates matters more is that i am not working on a simple LAN
application, this will be accessible via dial-in. Has this legal
copyright Can O'Worms been solved already? If so, where?

Thanks,
andrew <currie@boulder.colorado.edu>

p.s. Is there any other newsgroup i should be posting to re: cd-rom?