No, it is not patently obvious. Otherwise, I wouldn't have to ask
what's so different about a link that uses a CDROM versus the ones
that use phone lines, leased lines, 9-track tapes, radio waves, and
all the other various things that netnews travels that makes it
different all of them?
> profit." By a strict interpretation this is meaningless, as
> you observe with your example of UUNET, PSI and so on, but
> on the other hand it is not unreasonable for these people to
> ask that their work not be taken up and published in a
> magazine. You seem to be arguing that no legal distinction
> can be made between these two situations, which I do not
> find credible.
If the magazine in question was a newsfeed (meaning it included
everything posted to one or more newsgroups), I would say there was no
difference. If the magazine only selected FAQs on things of interest
to subscribers, I would say there was a difference, and that your
rights have indeed been violated. This is a media-blind decision, and
applies whether the magazine is published on paper, CDROM, or NNTP.
<mike
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