RE: [dvd-discuss] ``irreparable damage to my client''

["Ballowe, Charles" <CBallowe(at)usg.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Murphy [mailto:murphy@panix.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:41 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] ``irreparable damage to my client''
> 
> I don't know that contract is the best way to describe this 
> transaction.  I think it's more likely that some form of implied, non-
> exclusive license is created by virtue of posting to Usenet.  But it 
> may not follow that the implied license extends to 
> republishing Usenet 
> content on the web.
>  
at the time that the story was published, the Web was an active 
resource and I believe dejanews was operating. I'd have to double
check that, but web based nntp reading/archiving wouldn't have
been too far off. Knowing this, a post to usenet would be implied 
license to republish on the web as part of usenet archives. I might
question whether this would extend to a republishing outside of 
usenet archives, of course IANAL.

-charlie