Re: Copyright Infringement Happening at Conference Group - Help!

Thomas Workman <tworkman[_at_]erols.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

How do I determine the terms of the fair use license granted? Custom?  

Though I don't mind copying I was unaware I had extended a fair use license on my email. If so I certainly had no clear terms in mind. I similarly do not mind copying off my web site. Again I had not thought of a fair use license. Given that my state of mind was similar in both cases what distinguishes them?

Does printing a page off a web site constitute a violation of the fair use license? Lawyers in my old law firm who have not yet viscerally adapted to "on line" regularly have the librarian print materials off of various web sites for their use. Is this a violation of the fair use license?

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Regards,
John Lederer	
Oregon, Wisconsin
<johnl[_at_]ibm.net>