Re: Stallman Admits to Copyright Infringement
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Paul Serice wrote:
) undermine the very law that protects so much? (And, yes, letting
) anybody copy your records violates and undermines the very laws Debian
) has so much invested in -- at least in the United States.)
No it does not. Copyright laws come with a clause for 'fair use' (which
the newer laws seem to be trying to do away with), and non-commercial
distribution of a copy of a copyrighted item falls under it. And this *is*
in American law - http://www.loc.gov has everything you need to know about
copyright law in America (and a lot you didn't :)
)
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