Subject: Re: NEW: AOL caching: A copyright violating? NO! From: Rex Ballard Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 00:02:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Re: NEW: AOL caching: A copyright violating? NO! From: Rex Ballard Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 00:02:50 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 11 May 1995, John Rosenberg wrote:

> Rex Ballard wrote:
> Dialog has such a payment plan in effect. I don't believe Mead (now
> Lexis/Nexis) has instituted any such payment option. Dow Jones, so far from
> having done so, still has a part of its user agreement a prohibition on
> anything from its service being copied/shown/shared with anyone, including
> but not limited to those in your own office. These restrictions, it should
> be emphasized, are matters of contract between subscriber and vendor, not
> copyright questions per se.

I was thinking in terms of the DowVision(tm) product.  This product does 
allow librarians to redistribute stories as received from the feed.

	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.




From rballard@cnj.digex.net Fri May 12 12:10:42 1995