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Subject: 
Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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Date: 
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:44:34 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ...
Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
Thanks for the extremely clear (and reasonable) policy on catalog scans.
It is now clear that the retailer catalog is not to be shared (even old
ones, I guess those need to come down) in any form. I hope that everyone
who has continued to offer to e-mail scans will at least cease to use
Lugnet to make an offer (and even in one case bragging about how many
requests they have filled) which is clearly illegal, and by TLCs
communication to all of us, not what they consider "fair use".

Fairly reasonable.  I don't particularly agree with the "if it's
there on the server for you to see if you mistype a number in a URL
but isn't specifically hyperlinked you can't 'publish' a link to it"
interpretation.

I have to agree with you Mike. If Lego has sensative data on its server
which the public has easy access to that is there problem... not mine.
However, I don't want Todd to end up in jail for hosting data, or links to
it.

Scott A



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  Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
 
(...) The chances of Todd ending up in jail for virtually anything you or I post here is practically nil, imo. Hosting the data (set pictures, maybe even set names in advance of their official release) could be a little iffy - I expect he'd axe (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
 
(...) Perhaps there's already a well-established law to address the following analogy, but I'm still wondering: If a book is copyrighted, but the copyright doesn't expressly appear on each page and in each picture in the book, it's still (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
 
(...) Fairly reasonable. I don't particularly agree with the "if it's there on the server for you to see if you mistype a number in a URL but isn't specifically hyperlinked you can't 'publish' a link to it" interpretation. I guess I might feel (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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