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- From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
- Subject: Re: S893 - Copyright infringement a felony
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.083258.14385@netcom.com>
- Keywords: copyright infringement felony
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- References: <1992Nov20.074112.27955@netcom.com> <1992Nov20.164818.14414@netcom.com> <1992Nov20.222205.26094@wdl.loral.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:32:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.222205.26094@wdl.loral.com> mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar) writes:
- > ...
- >The "Fair Use" provisions in the copyright law allow copies materially
- >necessary to the use of the item in question. (i.e this is why the
- >copy of a program from disk to memory so you can run it is not a
- >copyright violation). This probably means that coping a CD to cassette
- >so that you can play it in the car is okay, while coping a cassette to
- >another cassette to play in your car is probably not okay because you could
- >have just played the original tape and the copy is not materially necessary.
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- The section that let's you make a copy so that you can use it
- is the section specifically (and solely) covering computer programs.
- That section does NOT cover records, movies, or tapes.
- Everyone (well, almost) does this with records and CDs, so even if
- it were technically a violation, I can't imagine anyone objecting.
- But then again...
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