Re: copying stuff off web sites

On 07/17/97, Chris Lloyd <clloyd[_at_]info.hwwilson.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this has already been discussed. If it has, I
> apologize for bringing it up again. But I was wondering if it
> is a violation of copyright law if I copied off a portion of
> someone else's web site and emailed it to someone else? (Is
> this an exception covered by fair use?)
>
> I know people who do this all the time, whether with pictures
> or text. It seems to me that it should be, in the same way that
> copying off a portion of a book or journal and incorporating it
> in another unrelated work would be. Now, I could argue that it
> fits under fair use since the person copied it for personal or
> educational use - either to send it to a friend or discuss on a
> listserve, but what if the person decides to store the information
> in an electronic archive, or their friend stores it? Or they take
> the picture from someone else's web site, alter it slightly and
> use it in their own?

See "May I freely copy, print, and email things I find on the Web?" at <http://www.patents.com/weblaw.sht#cpe>.

Carl Oppedahl
<carl[_at_]oppedahl.com> Received on Thu Jul 17 1997 - 19:29:34 GMT