From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Wed Jul 12 23:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila,sci.bio.entomology.misc Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU!jdp3e From: jdp3e@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jeffrey Donald Plautz) Subject: Re: Dave Barry's Column of 7/8/95 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: faraday.clas.virginia.edu Message-ID: Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <1995Jul11.173721.15818@alw.nih.gov> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:10:50 GMT Lines: 45 Xref: biosci bionet.drosophila:1218 sci.bio.entomology.misc:490 In article , Mark D. Garfinkel wrote: >In article <1995Jul11.173721.15818@alw.nih.gov>, >Eric L. Cabot wrote: >> Am I alone at being somewhat unhappy about Dave Barry's syndicated >>column last Sunday in which he lambasts a developmental >>study of Drosophila eye-formation and a biomechanical study of locomotion in >>cockroaches? > Am I alone in not having read the piece? > > Eric, with all due respect to copyrights, can you be convinced/cajoled/ >persuaded to provide us with the text in a post to the group? > >Mark > Just a word of warning to anyone who was thinking about posting the article (although I would like to read it also)... Dave Barry's weekly pieces used to be (until about a year ago, at least at this site) available on the internet, as clari syndicated articles. However, these were apparently licensed pieces, since someone, somewhere posted one of the pieces to a non-clari newsgroup, making available to readers who didn't/couldn't subscribe to the .clari group...some lawyer (I don't know whose) got upset about this, and Barry's pieces were removed from the net, never to appear again. I may be over reacting, but in these nebulous days of internet legalities, it seems that anyone posting a copyrighted piece could be subject to legal trouble, especially since there has already been 'trouble' with this author's writing. Probably the best thing to do would be to go to the library and check it out in person, unless someone would like to post the article anyway (everyone promise not to tell!) and see what happens. Sorry to stray from fly talk, but the posts of today will affect the freedom of the internet for years to come. Take care, Jeff Plautz .