But many of us *have* consented to this kind of publication, by using
a copyright that permits free distribution as long as the copyright notice
is intact. I would only have a complaint if someone attempts to remove
my name from my work, otherwise it's fair game.
Is it really that different to charge for a CD-ROM than to charge by the
hour for connect time to Usenet?
CD-ROM is just another medium for Usenet distribution. If someone wants
to receive news.answers by a different medium, there's nothing wrong with
service providers doing this and taking money for it. I do *not* think
additional permission has to be obtained, assuming the articles are used
without altering their contents.
If you fight this one, I suspect you will lose. Precedent: the
US->Australia news feed was once handled by writing out a magnetic
tape and mailing it, and Australia only took a subset of newsgroups.
-- Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com
Posting from but not speaking for Synopsys, Inc.
Formerly jbuck@<various-hosts>.eecs.berkeley.edu
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