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From: shor@sphinx.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Macintosh testifies in court...
Message-ID: <380@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 17:20:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 15 17:20:55 1986
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Reply-To: shor@sphinx.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
Organization: University of Chicago Consternation Center
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In article <2389@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>In article <451@hplabsc.UUCP> hplabs!taylor writes:
>[An interesting article about a MacIntosh computer used in a courtroom.]
>> (above, without permission, from A+ Magazine, August '86, page 16,
>> column News and Views, by Frederic E. Davis)
>	I don't know why people think that citing a source and then adding
>"reprinted without permission" makes it all right to violate copyright.
>If I steal some money from you, but then am careful to let people know who
>it really belongs to when I spend it, have I lessened the crime any?

I believe that the quote from A+ would be considered "fair use," in
that it was a short excerpt and probably did not damage sales of the
magazine.  The point here is that it does not necessarily violate
copyright laws to quote copyrighted materials;  the restrictions are
on the type and extent of quoting done.  A (probably *the*) major
problem with fair use is that it has never been fully defined to
anyone's satisfaction.  There are, however, quotations and excerpts
that would clearly considered to be fair use, and it seems to me that
the quote from the article about the Mac in court would fall into
that category.
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Melinda Shore                               ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor
University of Chicago Computation Center    XASSHOR@UCHIMVS1.Bitnet