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From: barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Copyright Madness
Keywords: So sue me...
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Date: 27 Sep 89 00:44:53 GMT
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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.

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