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From: mark@isi.UUCP (Mark Bailey)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: UUCP Maps Used For Commerce
Summary: Educational uses treated specially under copyright law.
Message-ID: <548@isi.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 17:25:38 GMT
References: <10017@ucsd.Edu> <3833@itivax.iti.org>
Organization: Integral Systems, Inc., Lanham MD
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In article <3833@itivax.iti.org>, scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
% That's a darned good point.  Clearly one can use copywritten material
% as research data to create a work which is not covered by the original
% copyright.  So if somebody grabs the maps, extracts the addresses, re-forms
% them to match what the mailing list needs, mixes them with addresses from
% other sources, has there been copyright violation?  If so, every paper
% which involved research is a copyright violation.

Copyright law allows very liberal use of copyrighted material for educational
and research purposes.  What is a legal use of copyrighted material in a
research paper may very well be illegal when used to compile a mailing list.

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Mark Bailey                                 (I didn't really say this.)
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