At 04:24 PM 7/1/99 +0000, you wrote:
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>> YOUR PROPRIETARY RIGHTS You agree that upon posting information
>> on the Service, you grant eGroups, and its successors and
>> assigns, a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, perpetual,
>> non-revocable license under your copyrights or other
>> intellectual property rights, if any, in such material, to use,
>> distribute, display, reproduce, and create derivative works from
>> such material in any and all media, in any manner, in whole or
>> part, without any duty to account to you. You also grant eGroups
>> the right to authorize the downloading and printing of such
>> material, or any portion thereof, by endusers for their personal
>> use.
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> Lawyers dont fuck up, they defend a position. The position of e-
>commerce at this point is that there are folks who would sue a
>service provider (and whatever else egroups and freemail and
>geocities and tripod and all are doing, they provide a service) on the
>grounds that if some message *content is arguably improper, then
>it is improper to service it.
Um, I think there is confusion here. Claiming a copyright license and
defending against libel are two different things. Whether the ISP or
whoever is licensed to use the content has nothing whatever to do
with that ISPs liability, if any, from posting the content, nor with its
freedom to yank it.
Bill Lovell
