Re: who owns newsgroup discussion thread?

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999, Carol Simpson <csimpson[_at_]lis.admin.unt.edu> wrote:
>
> On 10/20/99, Ari Kahan <akahan[_at_]netcom.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?

I don't think so. You get a license by someone's implying that you CAN use the work, NOT by their failure to say you can't.

Bob

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