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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: "6 LINES" ARE NOW PUB
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wbarwell@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (William Barwell)

> The entity known as Grady Ward (grady@netcom.com) posted:
>* I understand SCAMIZDAT #10 will have the complete Fishman appendices
>* including OTI-VIII, most of which have been published on this group
>* before.
>
>And, being court documents, are public domain in the USA.  No trade secret
>or copyright law has any jurisdiction over them.  RTC does not own them.
>Bridge Publications does not own them.  CSI, Author services have no claim
>to them.  Hubba-dubba's heirs and/or executors have no claim to them.  They
>are public domain, free for all to read, copy, post, mail, fold into
>airplanes, or wipe your ass with.

Pope:
>Not so.
>
>These materials as quoted in the Fishman declaration do not lose their
>copyright status. Beyond this it is a bewlderingly complex legal
>situation I am not competent to comment on.  These certainly are no
>longer trade secrets.  Nor unpublished, which status these materials
>never held anyway.  While one can quote the declaration, these materials
>do not automatically become public domain.
     
    That'd be my understanding, too.

>And I have been told that not all the OT materials have been posted.
>Fishman apparently gotthe heart of them, but some stuff is yet posted here.
>
>Maybe Dennis would care to comment as far as the stuff he is familar with
>as compared to the attachments in Fishman's declaration.
                                    
    I haven't examined them in detail, but they seem to be the 
    same material I validated before.  Old OT 1-7.  The quotes 
    I've seen in others' posts are genuine.

>Or some other ex-member who took any of the OT courses.
>
>Pope Charles
>SubGenius Pope Of Houston
>Slack!
 
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