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From: MRC%PANDA@SUMEX-AIM.arpa (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re:  Unix dead??? (long message)
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Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 14:55:18 EDT
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There is nothing that irritates me more than pseudo-legal experts who
make sweeping statements about what the law says when lawyers are much
more reticent on the issue.  Individual lawyers may have opinions, and
certain opinionated laymen may have their beliefs, but only the courts
are authoritative.  A reasonable argument can be made that passing on
an editorial from a trade publication to various academic and trade
distributions for the purposes of alerting the individuals in that
distribution to the opinions expressed in that editorial is protected
under the Fair Use Doctrine.

I wonder if there is any relation beyond coincidence that both parties
who flamed about "posting copyrighted material is illegal" are from
SUN.  Maybe this is a plot by SUN to close off people's brains so they
will sign any terrible license agreement SUN comes up with.

Sorry for passing this to all the mailing lists.
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