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Old 07-20-2005, 09:18 AM  
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Originally Posted by Linkster
TheDoc - I totally disagree with you as these types of postings are covered under the "fair-use" doctrine and laws. These have been litigated many times in courts and since GFY falls under the non-commercial use of the articles and used for comment/discussion they could never be liable in my opinion - and my opinion is only based on EFFs faqs about the fair use of copyrighted materials since they follow these types of cases constantly.
http://www.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.php

Fair uses with a news article only covers part of the article. If you publish the full article that is a copyright violation. Part 3/C covers that.
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