02-26-2005, 06:59 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I found this bullshit in the first amendment handbook:
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Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the statute considers some uses to be "fair uses," such as news reporting, commentary, criticism, research, teaching and scholarship. The Supreme Court found in 1994 that the commercial parody of the classic rock and roll song "Oh, Pretty Woman" by the rap group 2 Live Crew may be protected as a fair use under the Copyright Law.11
Posting an entire document online may not constitute fair use if done for purposes other than comment, criticism or news reporting. In a 1996 decision, a federal district court held that a former church member violated the church's copyright when he posted documents ? which contained church doctrine, normally available only to paying members of the church ? wholesale on the Internet with virtually no additional editorial comment. However, the church's suit against a newspaper that published an article including excerpts of posted materials was dismissed because the newspaper's reporting was in the public interest and it made selective and limited use of the material.14
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