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[Tony Baechler]

Hi.  Yes, you are correct that the texts are from and hosted in the UK.  No 
argument there.  However, importing them into the US is illegal under US 
copyright law.  Probably under UK law too, but I know nothing about UK 
copyright laws, and you might be right that it's fine for personal use.  My 
point is that the main archive can't be in the US because of the Red Dwarf 
texts in particular.  The truth is that probably no one would care as you 
said, the BBC in particular.  However, that does not change US law, and 
many web hosts would care.  They or the BBC would be within their rights to 
shut down the archive because of that.

At 11:17 AM 4/4/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>As things stood, the texts were from teh UK and hosted in the UK,
>therefore things were fine and good.
>If things are, in fact; as you say (and they probably are) then I'm
>stumped.