From: pstemari@erinet.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 18:24:41 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: A Legal Web Page Issue
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At 01:43 AM 1/23/95, "L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu> wrote:
> ...
>The text of the actual copyright notice seems to have a much friendlier slant.
>It resembles a GNU or FSF-type freeware license. Apparently you're just not
>allowed to charge *more* than a flat fee:
>
>- From the bottom of the cited Web page:
>"Copyright 1994 by Pepper & Corazzini, L.L.P. All rights reserved. 
>Reproduction is permitted so long as no charge is made for copies, no copies
>are placed on any electronic online service or database for which there is a
>fee other than a flat access charge, there is no alteration and this 
>copyright notice is included."

Is a link a copy?  Probably not.  This would only seem to apply to someone 
copying the page itself onto another server.  Whether an HTTP access counts 
as a copy is a bit dubious.

    --Paul J. Ste. Marie
      pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com