U.S. is losing the sympathy of the world

In article ,
Alan Minyard wrote:

The URL that you give is for "Fair Use", a different section of the
(excellent) web site cover "educational use". For instance, video
taping an entire program for use in the classroom is allowed, as is
the copying of entire poems, short stories, etc.

But making a lot of copies and distributing them randomly around campus
is, most certainly, not.

Like making a copy of a complete newspaper story and dumping it on
Usenet.

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On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:32:22 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

In article ,
Alan Minyard wrote:

The URL that you give is for "Fair Use", a different section of the
(excellent) web site cover "educational use". For instance, video
taping an entire program for use in the classroom is allowed, as is
the copying of entire poems, short stories, etc.

But making a lot of copies and distributing them randomly around campus
is, most certainly, not.

Like making a copy of a complete newspaper story and dumping it on
Usenet.

I would tend to agree with that, although the law as it pertains to
the internet is, IMHO, still evolving.

Al Minyard