Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:27:05 -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.4.10.10112171822190.72825-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0112171519350.17714-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: :On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Jamie Bowden wrote: : :> :> 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 : :You must have missed the previous emails about this. There are guidelines :that help define "fair use". I didn't miss them; they were only partially quoted, and I'm going by what four people who are learned in law tell me on 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. : :I guess these lawyers don't know about copyrights and fair use. Or this is :misunderstood. I'm usually willing to believe a prosecutor when he says there's no case there, and is backed up by three other lawyers. :Again: I don't know of any credible publishing company that republishes :others' articles without permission. A publishing company is not an individual, which is what we're discussing unless freebsd-chat is suddenly a division of Random House. 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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