"Rob Morley" wrote in message
...
In article
ws.net,
LID says...
snip
Whether a newsgroup is accessed via NNTP or HTTP it is still a
newsgroup. If someone selects individual posts or threads and
puts
them
on a website they are creating a derivative work without
consent.

You mean like Google does when you use their commercial search
engine?...

Google Groups is an HTTP front end to Usenet - it isn't selective
of the
content of any particular group, so doesn't constitute a derivative
work.

Did you read what I said?
You are wrong in what you say above, or do you get answers about gas
installations when you search for answers about pitting up a
shelf?!...

If anything Google search is being a dammed sight more selective than
the site that started this thread and what's more, it's being a
dammed sight more commercial with it's targeted adverts that depend
on the search string used.