From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 10:43:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [63.86.88.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA5D37BD3F for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C66CB7573; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:34:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AE91D91; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:34:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:34:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boston Globe Article (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message