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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: re:re:re:rom copyrights
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Date: 7 May 89 19:35:52 GMT
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>Actually, I beleive, (though again I could be mistaken) that copying to
>a Different Media is also Illegal. (at least it is with print and film media)
>So Backing up your roms to disk would be Illegal!
>
>*_Jawaid Bazyar_*  You have read the copywrite laws! what say you?
>
>Once again, thankyou in advance, in retrospect, and otherwise for Listening!
>Murray
>Stevens@Seneca
>(I can't see why my boss would want ANY of my comments!)

  To beat a dead horse even further...
  Don't quote me on this, I'm far from a law expert, but it would seem that
in film it is illegal PERIOD to copy it (although I believe the courts ruled
that home VCR taping is fair use); printed materials may be Xeroxed for research
and the ever-popular archiving; true, transcribing printed text to say computer
format must be done under the authority of the copyright owner.
  Assuming it IS illegal to copy from one media to another, does this mean
thousands of hard drive owners break the law every day?  Again, I tend to
disagree.  The portion of the Act I quoted stated nothing about 
media, so I would say it's left open to interpretation until a precedent
comes along.  

  Eek! Of course, the above is only my interpretation of what I've read, seen,
done, etc.  My opinions are exactly that.

  Oh and I would like to thank Murph Sewall and others for informing me about
the status of $$$$ on the net and from whence the $$$$ come.  It's a nasty
world...


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jawaid bazyar			   "The history of the world is the history of	
jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu	    the warfare between secret societies."
Junior/Computer Engineering @          - Ishmael Reed, Mumbo-Jumbo
 Univ. of Illinois
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