Dragaera

Artificial release dates and online publishing

Wed Dec 11 07:21:46 PST 2002

Matthew Hunter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:10:44AM -0600, Gametech
> <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Technically your memory is infringing thousands of copyrights....
>> It's such a joke.
>
> No, because you're not sharing it with anyone else.

You share your memory with others constantly. It's such a joke.
You don't have to share anything to be infringing, why you think they go
hand in hand I don't see.
>
>> Copyright, IP, Patents restrict the rights of the 'whole' for the
>> increase of rights for the entity (often a corporation).
>> So I better not take a picture of my room cause there is almost
>> certainly 100's of copyright infringements bound to happen...
>> That's what fair use is supposed to be about, telling my computer to
>> record my memories would in no way violate fair use.
>> As reverse engineering a drug to save lives is also fair use, some
>> things are more fundamental than others even if they aren't legal.
>
> Reverse engineering does not come under fair use -- they are both
> legal terms with specific definitions.

I disagree. The term 'fair use' is too vague, who determines what is fair?
(The courts do not know, and more the fool thoose that believe they do.) I'd
place the reverse enginnering of a drug to save lives in 'fair use' not
'ilegal' even if it is.