Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:34:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boston Globe Article (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112171032290.64181-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112141805030.258-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: :On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: : :> > The entire article was copied. :> > :> > "The greater the amount of copyrighted work used, the less likely that a :> > court will characterize the use as fair. The use of an entire copyright :> > work is almost never fair." (The AP Stylebook and Libel Manual, 1992.) :> :> The entire paper was not. : :I must mention that individual articles for newspapers (and from :magazines) do have value by themselves. Case law with respect to fair use is very specific that a single artice in full from a magazine or newspaper is fair use. I just watched this flamewar a month ago on a list with people who are lawyers in real life. Copyright law is complicated and ugly, but they all agreed on this point. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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