Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: a.r.s. lurkers eat sq
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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 95 08:39:41 -0700
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wbarwell@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (William Barwell)

>Maureen Garde <mgarde@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>The United States Copyright Act was amended in 1992 specifically to
>provide that the defense of "fair use" applies to copyrighted materials
>that are unpublished.  However, the defense of "fair use" is less broad
>when applied to unpublished materials than it is when applied to
>published materials, so it should be more difficult to sustain a claim
>of fair use to unpublished materials.

    The Sekrit Skripture has been *sold* to the public for years.

Pope:
>Of course, the 'unpublished' OT VIII materials are actually published.

    Fact.

>When one mimeographs them, stuffs these mimeographs into envelopes and
>distributes them to those taking OT courses, they are in essence published.
     
    Per se, published.

>So the 'unpublished works' clause of the copyright statutes are not
>likely to be very applicable here in a courtof law, wishful think of the
>second rate lawyer, Helena Kobrin not withstanding.
>
>Dennis, you may ask Mo-Fo to toss in a little challenge to this
>so as to get that legally on record to make it hard for Kobby to play
>this game in future years.
                      
    I'm forwarding this to the MoFo lawyer handling Trade Secret 
    claims.  [as if he's not lurking]

>Pope Charles
>SubGenius Pope Of Houston
>Slack!
 
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