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Quoting newsgroups and copyright

Author:

Andrew Denny

Date:

Monday, 14th Apr 2003 14:30

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I want to quote a summary of various newsgroup discussions from Usenet for a magazine. What are the copyright issues? Is it in the public domain?

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•	Quoting newsgroups and copyright
	I want to quote a summary of various newsgroup discussions from Usenet for a magazine. What are the copyright ...

Andrew Denny

14/04/03 14:30

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•	Re: Quoting newsgroups and copyright
	This article is very good. http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html This one also: http://www.benedict.com/digital/usenet/usenet.asp "copyright only protects the expression of an idea, and not the idea itself." I'd ...

squirrelman

15/04/03 15:14

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•	Re: Quoting newsgroups and copyright
	Great links, thanks! However, I wasn't talking about 'a board', I was talking about Usenet. Newsgroups. Surely no-one ...

Andrew Denny

15/04/03 21:19

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•	Re: Quoting newsgroups and copyright
	Apologies, I meant the 'host' or the 'server' it's on. But this appears not to be the case as stated ...

squirrelman

16/04/03 10:48

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