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#CompuS Copyright

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    08-Oct-86 23:35:30
Fm: Jon Franks 76357,1211
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321

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Don, We talked about this a little in CO tonight, but I thought I'd answer in the messages anyway. In Selby Bateman's "CompuServe and Public Domain" article in the November Compute! magazine, Rich Baker (director of corporate communications for CompuServe) is said to have said… That means no copies of any public domain software can be made legally for distribution without prior written permission from CompuServe, he says. As you can tell from the last two words, this is attributed to him but is not a direct quote of his words. Later in the article, though there is a direct quote: "It's just like any other copyright. They [down/uploaders] would make application in writing to us, and we would review it and respond in writing with permission or denial." Frankly, this looks bad. Jon