Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 11:34:58PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net>
> > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:02:54PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote:
> > > Plenty. 17 USC 107 defines fair use. Many non-US jurisdictions do
> > > not have any fair use provisions under copyright law.
> >
> > Give an example of one.
>
> The United Kingdom legislation contains fair dealing and permitted uses
> which are not really the same as fair use. Copyright law here covers
> all copying, even on your own computer and not distributed, except for
> limited exceptions stated in
> http://www.jenkins-ip.com/patlaw/cdpa1.htm#s28A
> http://www.jenkins-ip.com/patlaw/cdpa1.htm#s50A
> and "lawful use" broadly means permitted by the licence. 50A is quite
> misleading too, as I've read about at least one judge reasoning that
> no backups are necessary (as opposed to desirable), in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fsfe-uk/2005-12/msg00006.html
>
> The 1988 Act covers use and non-distributed copies quite comprehensively
> since the EUCD was rammed into it.
I didn't mean "give an example of such a jurisdiction", I meant "give an
example of infringing, non-distributional copying".
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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