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From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Article in Electronic Engineering Times
Summary: Don't quote long copyrighted articles verbatim, it's against the law.
	 Paraphrase.
Message-ID: <3099@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 16 Dec 88 02:57:47 GMT
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Not to make trouble or anything, but it is illegal to quote entire copyrighted
articles such as has happened here in comp.sys.amiga and elsewhere on the net.

As I understand it, it *is* legal to describe the article and to quote parts
of it.  This is called "fair use."   So when you see a copyrighted article 
about the Amiga and you decide to post about, say in what issue, date, page, 
etc. the article appeared, its title, describe what it's about and quote juicy
parts that are best verbatim, but do so sparingly.
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