From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 18:25:33 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 0089537B405 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:25:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0CC807573; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:27:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4941D91; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:27:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:27:05 -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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message