[free-sklyarov] Fair Use in the Electronic Age

Alexander Moskalyuk prostoalex at hotbox.ru
Wed Jul 25 20:58:26 PDT 2001


http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/fairuse.html

The following was said by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor 
in the case 'Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural 
Telephone Service Co':

"The primary objective of copyright is not to reward 
the labor of authors, but to promote the Progress of 
Science and useful Arts. To this end, copyright 
assures authors the right to their original 
expression, but encourages others to build freely upon 
the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This 
result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the 
means by which copyright advances the progress of 
science and art". 

The Copyright Law states that:

Without infringing copyright, the public has a right 
to expect: 

---to read, listen to, or view publicly marketed 
copyrighted material privately, on site or remotely; 

---to browse through publicly marketed copyrighted 
material; 

---to experiment with variations of copyrighted 
material for fair use purposes, while preserving the 
integrity of the original; 

---to make or have made for them a first generation 
copy for personal use of an article or other small 
part of a publicly marketed copyrighted work or a work 
in a library's collection for such purpose as study, 
scholarship, or research; and 

---to make transitory copies if ephemeral or 
incidental to a lawful use and if retained only 
temporarily. 





Best regards,
Alexander Moskalyuk
http://www.moskalyuk.com/
ICQ 44065387




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