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Re: Postel's law, exceptions

• To: "W. E. Perry" <wperry@f...>
• Subject: Re: Postel's law, exceptions
• From: jcowan@r...
• Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:14:44 -0500
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W. E. Perry scripsit:

> Your question of whether we 'own' the data or it is 'ours' is the specific
> legal issue at the heart of what we do. As a service provider, we act as
> agent and we strive to be invisible to the true principal parties to the
> transactions which our service facilitates. 

So you have two kinds of clients, publishers and subscribers (where a given
client may be both).  Do your publishers indemnify you against the legal
consequences of misunderstandings by your subscribers?

In these terms, the business model of (e.g.) Reuters Health is that it is its
own sole publisher, with trivial exceptions, but it does impose considerable
constraints on the subscriber's use of the content of the published documents:
the form may be altered within limits, but the content is sacred.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my shoulders."
        --Hal Abelson

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