Re: a fair use query

From: James Rogers <jetan[_at_]ionet.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 07:47:02 -0500 (CDT)

On 6/26/98, Robert A. Baron <rabaron[_at_]pipeline.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

     But you are also copying to your cache as a neccessary incident to gaining "access", no?

                           James

James Michael Rogers
jetan[_at_]ionet.net Received on Fri Jun 26 1998 - 12:45:47 GMT