Re: Your FAQ on CDROM

emv@garnet.msen.com
Wed, 06 Apr 94 19:05:52 EDT

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> If you maintain a FAQ, or similar document, I strongly urge you to ftp
> to ftp.cdrom.com and cd to /pub/cdrom/cdroms/inet. Read the Readme.txt
> and index.txt files to see if your document has been published without
> your consent.

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.

I will note that there are CD-ROM publishers who make a point to get
explicit permissions for every file that they produce; the SIMTEL
disks (see http://www.coast.net/) have explicit OK's from all authors
on the disk, for instance.

Is it really that different to charge for a CD-ROM than to charge by the
hour for connect time to Usenet?

I believe that you can make a distinction between a CD-ROM as a
distribution medium (all articles from time 't' to time 't+1' pressed
onto a CD-ROM with headers intact for redistribution) and as a
publication medium (selected articles arranged outside of normal news
hierarchies and in no shape for reposting).

-- Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com

Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
Msen Inc., 320 Miller, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 4562 (fax: 998 4563)

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