roundtable: Re: Telecommunications Politics, "Extortion," and PACs

roundtable: Re: Telecommunications Politics, "Extortion," and PACs

Re: Telecommunications Politics, "Extortion," and PACs

W. Curtiss Priest (BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu)
Sun, 11 Jun 95 08:36:18 EDT 

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Date:         Sun, 11 Jun 95 08:36:18 EDT
From: "W. Curtiss Priest" <BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject:      Re: Telecommunications Politics, "Extortion," and PACs
To: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable <ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  Message of Thu, 8 Jun 1995 13:59:25 -0700 from <tres@PRIMENET.COM>


>What is the soft-core porn and other advertising doing in the middle
>if the article?

I recently posted an article, with commentary, from the New Yorker
Magazine.  Out of requirements of Fair Use (Section 107a of the
Copyright Law of 1976) I dutifully included the advertisements
that surrounded the article.  This is to required because these
advertisements provided the revenue to pay the author, and by including
the ads, I further those advertisements.

A few people have been concerned that one of those ads was some kind
of solicitation for adults.

If I had taken more time to reflect on the situation when I was
scanning and editing the article, I, in hindsight, would have left
this one ad out.  Not because I believe in censorship, but because
for right now, things are too crazy with the Exon-Snowe-Dole amendments.

Regards, Curt

Curtiss Priest
<bmslib@mitvma.mit.edu>

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