a fair use query

A fair use query:

When we use the term "fair use," typically we mean the right to USE materials we have obtained either by borrowing or purchasing the copyrighted materials. With analogue materials, having access to them is assumed. Fair use, as I understand it, however, is meant to apply to the USE of these materials. When we speak of on-line access (as in H.R. 2281) being a right of "fair use," so that we are requesting the right to decrypt copyrighted materials, are we extending the notion of fair use to apply to something new: to ACCESS as well as to USE?

Robert A. Baron
<rabaron[_at_]pipeline.com> Received on Fri Jun 26 1998 - 04:28:18 GMT