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From: td@alice.UUCP (Tom Duff)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Nagel freak needs *.gifs!!!!!! Please e-mail...
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Date: 6 Aug 89 20:15:47 GMT
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micropen!dave@ee.rochester.edu says:
> Respectfully, I believe that private use [of copies of copyright works]
> is legitimate use.
I say:
People who believe this dreamer deserves anything that happens to them.

The law is not nearly as simple (or stupid) as he would have you believe.
There is no protection in copyright law for `private use.'  `Fair use',
which is protected, is not private use.  Of his examples, only one is
currently protected (copying TV broadcasts off-air for later viewing.)
(This is a result of the Disney/Paramount vs. Betamax case.)
None of the other instances he cites are permissible without the permission
of the copyright owner.