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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>



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