On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:38:55PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > I think this is fundamentally unsound, given Texaco. I gave an actual > Fair Use analysis in another message. Pardon my language, but fuck Texaco. If your reading of the holdings of the case are correct, I see no reason why this court decision deserves any more of our moral support than the DMCA, CBDTPA, or the "Trusted Computing" initiative. Copyright cases that erode fair use should in general indicate to the FSF, and other propoponents of Free Software, areas where we need to be sure our licenses are *granting* sufficient permissions for people to enjoy their freedoms -- they should not be treated as great opportunities to turn the screws on the users, and your repeated citation of the Texaco case sounds exactly like that. Does the FSF endorse the erosion of Fair Use rights in the U.S.? If so, why? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | De minimis non curat lex. branden@debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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