On Tue, 1 Feb 1994, Kirk Sheppard wrote:
law. Others could argue that postings by their very nature, when posted become "public domain", and thus not copyrightable. I practice law, but
If I use your logic, a published article in a magazine becomes public domain because it has become available to a large number of subscribers.
Finally what is the tangible difference between storing usenet postings on a hard disk for an indefinite time, or on a cd-rom, or a cd that is re-writable, or tape or any other storage device? Not very much I would argue.
Tangible difference... Lets see... A CD-ROM can be duplicated and sold for profit, and doing so with net archives violates the copyrights of any message author who cares to file class action or personal... Who did you say had that archive, and were they selling it? -ck