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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaMail questions
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Date: 17 Oct 90 17:34:01 GMT
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In article <15205@cbmvax.commodore.com> ewout@topcat.cbm.commodore.com (Ewout Walraven - CATS) writes:
>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>	Are the programming examples in the Amiga Mail issues
>>which do not reveal secrets allowed to be shown to
>>non-developers? I know of some people at Columbia (a department)
>>which MAY have an interest in purchasing some Amigas, but only if
>>they can do accurate timing to microseconds. I wanted to talk
>>about two specific articles in Amiga Mail about how to do timing,
>>but I don't know if I am allowed. It will likely make the
>>difference between selling Amigas and not selling Amigas. Thanks,

|Don't see why you couldn't talk about them or use them in a talk. They
|are examples after all. They are all copyrighted however, so you can't
|reprint them.

That's not entirely accurate.  Indeed you CANNOT reprint them in their
entirety without a formal release form the copyright holder (Commodore-Amiga),
though you can include "selected small portions" (a 10-line code excerpt,
for example, taken out of a 2-page program).  This is called "fair use",
and it is routinely applied to educational and journalistic use.

-- Marco
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