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Subject: Re: Copyright
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Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 00:14:03 EDT
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> Now it is clear to me (though it may also be wrong) that this too
> is fair use.  I do not worry about being arrested for remembering
> things, nor for repeating them.  Yet still I wonder.  When should
> I become concerned?

Surely reading something -- even memorizing it -- is not copying it.
Repeating it may be, though.  For instance, a performance of a play
or a piece of music is a copy, as is a paraphrase or a translation into
another language.  When should you be worried?  I dunno.  I would start
getting worried when I wrote something that had a significant chance
of being proved to be some kind of a copy of something else.