IP: Re: Washington Post sending lawyer letters to copyright

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 15:06:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Brock N. Meeks" <brock () well com>
To: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>


Dave--


Here's an interesting little anecdote that you might want to share with 
the list.


I broke a story for Campaign Dispatch, my column on Netizen, the HotWired 
WEB site covering the election, about how some of the campaign sites were 
violating copyright laws.  The biggest violator was Pat Buchanan, some 
200 articles put up on his site without copyright permission.  I called 
allt he papers to ask if Buchanan's official site had received 
permission, none of the papers had given it.


Forbes and Alan Keyes also had "stelen" articles.


However, none of the papers seemed to care, at least I should say their 
news departements didn't. No one pickedup on teh story, though I told 
them all about it!


Their legal departments, however, were very interested and some 
threatened to get right on it with the candidates.


Of all the articles I saw, none were from the W.Post.


--Brock