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- From: veatch@cs.toronto.edu (Tim Veatch)
- Subject: Re: Commercial Abstract Games
- Message-ID: <92Nov19.220225est.47887@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
- Sender: "Tim Veatch" <veatch@cs.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov11.190230.19389@oz.plymouth.edu> <BxyFIv.8tE@techbook.com> <1992Nov19.195713.5242@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Nov20.004928.8502@oz.plymouth.edu>
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 03:02:33 GMT
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- basestu@bmerh691.bnr.ca (Jean Giblin) writes:
- >Could somebody please post the rules to Timeline?
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- sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan) writes:
- >*sigh* - people, please! This is another copyrighted game! We cannot
- >legally post the rules to it.
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- I really don't know if this is really a problem.
- This is what I get when I log into one of the lyric archives...
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- ftp cs.uwp.edu
- ftp> cd /pub/music/lyrics
- 250- NOTICE
- 250-
- 250- WARNING CONCERNING COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS
- 250-
- 250-The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code)
- 250-governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted
- 250-material.
- 250-
- 250-Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives
- 250-are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of
- 250-these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not
- 250-to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or
- 250-research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or
- 250-reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be
- 250-liable for copyright infringement.
- 250-
- 250-This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order
- 250-if, it its judgement, fulfillment of the order would involve violation
- 250-of copyright law.
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- I don't know if the action of posting copyrighten material to this group,
- is considered an infringment if the group is considered an `archive'.
- Maybe what you do with a post once you get it could be considered `in excess'.
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