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From: whh@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The Worm on NPR, 10 Nov 88
Message-ID: <21677@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 88 03:03:43 GMT
References: <2197@ficc.uu.net> <32194@bbn.COM> <7900@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <375@w3vh.UU.NET>
Organization: Pacific * Bell, Oakland, CA
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In article <375@w3vh.UU.NET>, rolfe@w3vh.UU.NET (Rolfe Tessem) writes:
> In article <21672@pbhya.PacBell.COM>, whh@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt) writes:
> > In article <7900@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
> > > [about taping radio shows -- and legality of it]
> > 
> I don't believe that this was settled in the '50s as you
> state, but rather just a few years ago in the Sony "Betamax
> Case" that went to the Supreme Court.  The key here is "for
> your own personal use."

It was settled for *video* when various people sued Sony.  The general
case was settled many years before--almost as soon as TAPE RECORDERS
became cheap enough for the average person to afford.  If you want
to be really nasty, you could check to see if the issue came up when
wire recorders were in vogue.

> ["fair use" of excerpts]

My wife writes--believe me, I know about "fair use."

> This almost cetainly doesn't belong in news.sysadmin any
> longer, but I'm not sure where to direct followups...

Likewise.  But I think it's been covered now and can be directed to /dev/null.

    --Hal

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