On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:26:18PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:38:19PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:10:41AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:45:24AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > Fair use is an American perversion. It does not exist in most of the > > > > rest of the world in anything like the same form. Anything that relies > > > > on the American notion of "fair use" is non-free, because in the UK > > > > that means "Non-commercial use only". > > > > > > Out of curiosity, what is it about fair use that makes you call it a > > > "perversion"? > > > > In opposition to the norm. That's the real definition, once you > > discard the arbitrary labels of 'right' and 'wrong'. > > Something which is merely "in opposition to the norm" is "unusual". A > perversion is something which is both unusual and worse. Fair use may > be unusual, but I don't really understand how it's worse. 'Worse' is purely a matter of perspective. There's irony here... -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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