jazz@hal.com, in a message on 1 February, wrote: JA> If you were a ligitimate recipient of the work in the first place (i.e. g JA> it in a newsfeed) and you store those postings for your own use or for th JA> use of others on that node in the store-and-forward network, then you can JA> keep the work 'til the bits rot. Infringement occurs when you copy those JA> bits onto some medium for some purpose other than store-and-forward JA> propagation or the allowed fair-use exceptions; stuffing articles on a JA> CD-ROM and selling them falls into neither category and hence is an JA> infringement. Hmm... why is "stuffing articles on a CD-ROM and selling them" not a type of store-and-forward propagation? Usenet is not just a bunch of machines speaking CNews. I agree that you have a copyright on the expression of ideas that make up a Usenet post. However I maintain that by posting them on Usenet you are explicitly allowing them to be distributed (either freely or for a cost) by all methods used to distribute Usenet. I would seem obvious to me that taking a nice piece of Usenet prose and publishing it a collection of essays would be in violation of a copyright. On the other hand, publishing the same thing in a collection of this month's Usenet traffic would not. People redistribute and sell your Usenet postings all the time, why would it make a difference if they do so via CD-ROM? -Blake (Never underestimate the bandwidth of a trunk full of CD-ROMs) ... * ATP/DJgcc 1.42 * blake.coverett@canrem.com, disclaimers? fooey!