Matthew Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:07:36PM -0600, Gametech wrote: > > > >? 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use38 > > [snip the definition of fair use, covering at least a full page] > > >That is still awfully vague. > > > Not really. It's not specific to the point of "You can excerpt > 30 seconds of video, 10 seconds of audio, 300 characters of > english text", no. That's for a judge and jury to determine > based on the circumstances. A good place to find out about this stuff without the legalese is http://www.chillingeffects.org/ It's a joint project between the EFF, Harvard, Stanford, Berkley, Uni of San Fransisco and the Uni of Maine law school. The have nice easy FAQs of copyrights, patents and a whole bunch of other stuff. It's quite interesting and a bit scary. Enjoy Fides