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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Krol)
Tue Aug 11 13:17:53 1992
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 11:21:15 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
From: Ed Krol <krol@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
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> Dan Lester raises an interesting question. Is what we say on the net
> publication? If so, then is it really necessary to ask permission to
> quote from that which is published? I do not recall asking each author
> I have ever quoted in an article for permission to quote.
As the author of a soon to be released "how to" Internet book I had
to wrestle with this problem. Legal counsel for the publisher
(O'Reilly and Associates) was fearful of the lack of case law about
this very topic, so it was suggested I either obtain permission
or change examples. So all the newsgroup use examples were screen
captured and then the names and text changed to protect the guilty.
Ed Krol University of Illinois e-krol@uiuc.edu (217)333-7886
