From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c42dbf68f5320193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-10 11:22:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!207.217.77.43.MISMATCH!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CDC0FB7.8A1793BD@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: More on copyright References: <3CDAA2DA.4526E848@san.rr.com> <5ee5b646.0205100932.279fb402@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:22:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.107.245 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1021054921 63.184.107.245 (Fri, 10 May 2002 11:22:01 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:22:01 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23860 Date: 2002-05-10T18:22:01+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > As an example, consider the company that was marketing > copies of Titanic with the "good parts" bleeped out of > the tape. They bought new tapes and modified them, but > the film company went after them on the grounds that > they were creating an unauthorized derived version. The > case settled, and the product was off the market, so > we don't have a judicial judgment here, but it was > pretty clear that the company would have won. If you sell the derived work, that is clearly a violation. But if I take my legal copy of Titanic and create a version with Jar Jar Binks edited out for my personal enjoyment, that's clearly fair use. If I show my version to my friends (without charging for it), that's fair use, too. If I give copies of my version to my friends, that's less clear, but probably fair use. If I have millions of friends and give them copies via the internet, things get murky. But charging for it without permission is always a violation. -- Jeff Carter "You couldn't catch clap in a brothel, silly English K...niggets." Monty Python & the Holy Grail