Re: who owns newsgroup discussion thread?

On 10/20/99, Ari Kahan <akahan[_at_]netcom.com> wrote:
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> To the extent there was any implied license granted by the act
> of posting to Usenet, Deja is substantially exceeding its contours.

This may be naive (since I'm not an attorney) but if no one is willing to challenge Deja News, don't they have a license by default? How can a precedent be set if no one is willing to call them to task?

Carol Simpson, Ed.D.
University of North Texas School of Library & Information Sciences Denton, Texas 76203
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940-565-3101 (fax) Received on Thu Oct 21 1999 - 14:05:13 GMT