Archive-name: usenet/posting-rules/diff1
Original-author: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton)
Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Last-change: 23 Sep 1996 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
Changes-posted-to: news.misc,news.answers

The following are the differences between two versions.
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 Archive-name: usenet/posting-rules/part1
 Original-author: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton)
 Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
-Last-change: 13 Jun 1995 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
+Last-change: 23 Sep 1996 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
 Changes-posted-to: news.misc,news.answers
 
 This message describes some of the rules of conduct on Usenet.  The rules
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 			message what you are testing.
 
 
-It is perfectly legal to reproduce short extracts of a copyrighted work
-for critical purposes, but reproduction in whole is strictly and
-explicitly forbidden by US and international copyright law.  (Otherwise,
-there would be no way for the artist to make money, and there would
-thus be less motive for people to go to the trouble of making their art
-available at all.  The crime of theft is as serious in this context as
-any other, even though you may not have to pick locks, mask your face,
-or conceal merchandise.)
+If you're thinking of posting anything that was written by someone else
+(eg. article, song, picture), make sure that you are familiar with the
+copyright issues.  If you're not sure about the copyright issues, then find
+out before posting.  For instance, you must not post anything that you were
+allowed to see only because of a confidentiality agreement, such as a UNIX
+source license.
 
 It is generally considered rude to post private e-mail correspondence
-without the permission of the author of that mail.  Furthermore, under
-copyright statutes, the author of the e-mail possesses a copyright on
-mail that he or she wrote; posting it to the net or mailing it on to
-others without permission of the author is likely a violation of that
-copyright as well as being rude.
+without the permission of the author of that mail, and furthermore, it's
+likely a copyright violation as well.
 
 All opinions or statements made in messages posted to Usenet should be
 taken as the opinions of the person who wrote the message.  They do not
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