Dragaera

Artificial release dates and online publishing

Wed Dec 11 16:28:35 PST 2002

Matthew Hunter wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:07:36PM -0600, Gametech  wrote:
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> >? 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

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