John Lederer <johnl[_at_]ibm.net> wrote:
>
> Would you like to take a stab at explicating why someone taking
> something off the web violates copyright, but your repeating of the
> entirety of Brigid's message does not?
Fair use. When one sends an Email, one issues a fair use license for others to forward it withor without comment. That is the nature of the medium. One gives a license for a web browser to "copy" the web page so that antoher can view it with their browser. That "copying" is fair use. Copying the web page, or major parts of it, so that they become part of another's work -- is INFRINGEMENT, and not fair use. Linking to a web page is a more complicated issue.
Thomas Workman
<tworkman[_at_]erols.com>
Received on Tue Jul 14 1998 - 14:39:16 GMT
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