Re: Maine moves to cut greenhouse gases

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:09:09 GMT

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:59:46 GMT, "Brandon Berg" <bberg@cesmail.net>
wrote:

>Psalm 110 wrote:
>> http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/040619greenhouse.shtml
>>
>> A small fraction of a daily large volume of publication, may
>> constitute fair use even when the entirety of a small fraction has
>> been copied intact, so has declared United States Federal Courts. The
>> tests of exceeding fair use include monetary value obtained by the
>> copier (none here), plus monetary value lost to the copyright holder's
>> ability to market this material to the same audience (none here), plus
>> totality of copyrighted colection from which the fair use is exerpted
>> (miniscule portion of daily volume published), plus clear scientific
>> or educational value (large value as specimen of pursuasion type).
>
>Nonsense. The work is the article, not the daily output of the AP, and
>copying an entire article intact is every bit as much a copyright violation
>as copying a poem from a book. Furthermore, the AP charges for access to
>their archives, and the site to which you linked has ads, so they'd probably
>have a good case for monetary damages, as well.

Maybe in court, but not in fact.

>Finally, since you haven't
>actually commented on the article, your claims of educational purposes are
>questionable. It's unlikely that they'd come after you anyway, but posting
>this "fair use" nonsense certainly doesn't help, and it may even give the
>copyright holders cause to single you out as an example.

Yes, well, economic rent does have a way of making otherwise normal
people embrace evil...

-- Roy L

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