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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] The Navy Speaks: Bubsy is Public Domain

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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] The Navy Speaks: Bubsy is Public Domain
From: David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:34:10 -0500
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Captain Nemo wrote:
>Seems to me if anyone should have the right to make and sell copies of  R.
>Frank's book for a profit, it's his family.   If I were going to do it
>myself, I'd feel obliged to pay them royalties, out of respect.

And that would be very nice. But it sounds like the deal is, that the author was already paid, by the government, under an arrangement that made it public domain. That is, "we" already paid for it. Distributing it for free would be just dandy. Did I miss something?
-- 
David
Osage MN USA
buchner@wcta.net - http://customer.wcta.net/buchner

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- [PSUBS-MAILIST] The Navy Speaks: Bubsy is Public Domain
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- Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] The Navy Speaks: Bubsy is Public Domain
  - From: "Captain Nemo" <vulcania@interpac.net>

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