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> ok, so everybody already knows this right?
>
> there's all these people pulling down our posts and using them as
> content for their sites.
>
> not that bad an idea actually. i suppose there's nothing unethical
> about it....just doesn't seem very....i dunno....
>
> but how much can it be doing for them? hello, duplication of content?

>> ok, so everybody already knows this right?
>> there's all these people pulling down our posts and using them as
>> content for their sites.
>> not that bad an idea actually. i suppose there's nothing unethical
>> about it....just doesn't seem very....i dunno....
>> but how much can it be doing for them? hello, duplication of content?
> here in the UK, i've seen an ex-pats website that has incorporated
> various travel related usenet groups into it's website.
> It looks well and obviously has fresh content, that brings folks back
> to the website.
> But I always wondered about the legal issues ie does google not have
> some level of copyright on usenet posts?  Or can we all incorporate
> usenet posts/newsgroups into out web sites?

> But I always wondered about the legal issues ie does google not have some
> level of copyright on usenet posts?  Or can we all incorporate usenet

> robert blake wrote:
>
>> But I always wondered about the legal issues ie does google not have
>> some level of copyright on usenet posts?  Or can we all incorporate
>> usenet
>
> How would Google have a copyright on Usenet posts?
>
> (You're not posting from GoogleGroups, so you would appear to know
> that Google Groups is *not* Usenet.)