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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Mike_B   
    writes   
   >In message , banana   
   > writes   
   >   
   >>So one person who gets a document via a FOIA request is breaching   
   >>copyright if they send the document to someone else?   
   >   
   >I don't think they are suggesting that you breach copyright by sending   
   >it to someone else.   
      
   But they are - assuming you have copied it, or permitted the other   
   person to copy it, e.g. by putting it on a website.   
      
   >Only that you do so by publishing it, which may well   
   >be true but it would be interesting to see what damages they would claim   
   >for the non-commercial publication of documents that are freely   
   >available to anyone on request.   
      
   Sending a copy to someone else is publication. Maybe they know they   
   wouldn't get damages, and this is why rather than threatening Craig   
   Murray with having to pay damages, they chose to threaten him with   
   having to pay the Foreign Office's legal costs!   
      
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   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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