Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:18:52 -0700
Reply-To:     "Steven X. Schwenk" <sxs@CONCENTRIC.NET>
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From:         "Steven X. Schwenk" <sxs@CONCENTRIC.NET>
Subject:      Re: CD
Comments: To: Bob Berkemer <berky@WIN.BRIGHT.NET>,
          vanagon List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
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Good points.  Ron has good reason to be concerned, though, since he is
hosting the server and is an administrator of the list.  It still costs
money to get out of a frivilous suit....thousands typically.  Now if
others went out and did this....on their own, Ron has no control over or
responsibility for that.

As far as getting sued...it's always possible, but how likely,
especially if you are not a "business entity" with assets.

I do not understand why any one is getting upset, unless it is concerns
over ill-gotten profits.  If everyone can access the archive over the
web, what difference if people access it from a CD, as John noted.
Listees consent to publication in the archive by virtue of sending the
post to the list server...they are the ones who publish it there.  Why
would this consent not extend to archives on a CD as opposed to archives
on a hard drive, especially if only listmembers could get the CDs and
there was no profit?  This is the one legal isue I would like to
research...and will try to take a look at next week.
steve

Bob Berkemer wrote:

> My goodness, I can't believe all the storm being raised over the
> copyright issue. If somebody wants to pay the money to take the "list"
>
> to court because we printed their question about "what oil filter to
> use" then let them sue us. We've got a lot more important things in
> our
> life to worry about than this and so do the courts.
>
> If the list can't get this sorted out pretty soon then I'm just going
> make up a CD of the archives myself. If we have to we can just publish
>
> detailed instructions on how to do it and let everyone go their own
> way.
> This is potentially a very useful tool for us and we're being held
> hostage over nothing that is going to hurt us.
>
> Bob
> 84 westy