On Tue, 1 Feb 1994, Jim choate wrote:
It is no more illegal (at the present time) for me to store your posting to every usenet or inet service that I have access to on my hard-drive or a CD- Rom for re-sale than it is for you to store my posting on your drive or print it out to the printer.
I think the question of storage goes beyond copyright law. I have yet to find someone who lost a suit for owning a copy of a magazine. But since you feel the way you do about CDs, why don't you scan in a couple of issues of Life magazine, master it, and try to sell it? Do they supply Inet feeds in prison?
When I got my account I did not sign any kind of agreement relating to me retaining my rights to any material I chose to place on the net for dissimenation to others.
Have you ever published an article in say a not-for profit journal? Just because you don't sine a contract guaranteeing your rights DOES NOT mean you have given them up! There IS an implied motivation to put that material
If you are serious about your view then please forward a money order for $1000 dollars for having my original post stored on whatever medium you used to reply to it.
Now that you have set your rate, I set mine. Please remit your check of $10,000.... I think this is getting a bit carried away. Copyright cases generally relate to the sale or use of material belonging to an author. As I said above, I have never heard of a case where someone lost a suit for posessing a 1942 issue of Life magazine. -ck The material in this message composed by me, lines NOT preceeded by the ">", is expressly copyrighted as the posession of Chris Knight. You may reply to this message, forward this message, and store it for PRIVATE use. Any attempt to sell this material either alone, or as part of an archive will be met by me, at you backdoor, late at night, with a chaninsaw. I have the DOOM cheats! I am invincible! ;> p.s. The above bit of humor is copyrighted 1994, cmk.