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More info?)
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:00:58 -0500, Ed Ruf <egruf_usenet@cox.net>
wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:53:41 GMT, in rec.photo.digital Owamanga
><nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:01:17 -0500, Ed Ruf <egruf_usenet@cox.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>>If the answer is 'it never appears' then people shouldn't use Google
>>>>groups as their main usenet source, because it's incomplete... plus it
>>>>has a *really* annoying new interface.
>>>
>>>Yes. I set this header myself. Actually I just found I forgot to set
>>>it on amy second machine which was just upgraded. I object to Google
>>>Groups copyright, same for Yahoo, etc. It is a philosophical objection
>>>to giving up perpetual copyright to intellectual property that is the
>>>issue, imo, not that the content of my posts is worth anything.
>>
>>They might have the copyright on the archive as a whole, but can't
>>have it on the individual posts. You as the author haven't
>>specifically consented to handing over copyright to them have you?
>
>http
/www.google.com/googlegroups/terms_of_service.html
>
>7. Proprietary Rights
>
>Your Rights
>
>..................By submitting, Posting or displaying Content on or
>through the Service, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive,
>royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt and publish such Content on
>the Service solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and
>promoting the Service or any other Google Services. This license
>terminates when such Content is deleted from the Service. Google
>reserves the right to syndicate Content submitted, Posted or displayed
>by you on or through the Service and use that Content in connection
>with other services offered by Google.
Fair enough, this only applies to stuff you post through google's own
web interface. If you use Agent (and you do) and post via your ISP,
this is not a problem, they can't just grab the whole of usenet and
copyright it (and from the above, I can see they are not attempting to
do that).
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Owamanga!