Dragaera

Artificial release dates and online publishing

Wed Dec 11 19:08:05 PST 2002

Fides wrote:
> 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

Great link, thanks