Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:17:48PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Excerpting is allowed by copyright law under the fair use principle, and > > one need not accept any license governing a work to exercise that right > > to fair use. > > Australia, for example, doesn't have a "fair use" principle at > all. (Instead, there are a range of delineated uses you're allowed to > make of copyrighted works without the author's permission).
Fair use *is* a range of delineated uses you're allowed to make of copyrighted works without the author's permission. Whether that's called "fair use" or something else in Australia isn't important. -- "Unix... is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." --Neal Stephenson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
