Posted by Toby Inkster on 12/01/90 11:26

Barbara de Zoete wrote:

> Does Google have the authors permission?
> [to archive posts]

Google creates a copy of your post on their server; so do thousands of
other servers. The other servers only keep their copies for a week or so;
Google keeps their copy for a lot longer.

Length of retention is the only difference between Google any other NNTP
servers; length of retention does not factor into copyright law AFAIK.

So if Google's copies are illegal, so are the copies on every other
server. (And that is quite possible!)

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