Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bloom-beacon!think!kulla!barmar From: barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Copyright Madness Keywords: So sue me... Message-ID: <30156@news.Think.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 00:44:53 GMT References: <7042@stiatl.UUCP> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 16 In article <7042@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes: >Perhaps to save net.bandwidth from lawsuit.paranoia, we could get >a clarification added, along the lines of the book copyrights which >say something like, ..."except that brief excerpts may be used as >examples or in reviews...". Or am I just being excessively paranoid? I believe that the US copyright laws already specify that brief excerpts may be used for just such purposes, without violating copyrights. They probably don't rigorously define "brief excerpt", though; if it came to court, it would probably be the judge's decision. Another exception is that teachers are permitted to make a small number of copies for educational use. Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar