On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 11:34:58PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:02:54PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > > > Plenty. 17 USC 107 defines fair use. Many non-US jurisdictions do > > > not have any fair use provisions under copyright law. > > > > Give an example of one. > > The United Kingdom legislation contains fair dealing and permitted uses > which are not really the same as fair use. Copyright law here covers > all copying, even on your own computer and not distributed, except for > limited exceptions stated in > http://www.jenkins-ip.com/patlaw/cdpa1.htm#s28A > http://www.jenkins-ip.com/patlaw/cdpa1.htm#s50A > and "lawful use" broadly means permitted by the licence. 50A is quite > misleading too, as I've read about at least one judge reasoning that > no backups are necessary (as opposed to desirable), in > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fsfe-uk/2005-12/msg00006.html > > The 1988 Act covers use and non-distributed copies quite comprehensively > since the EUCD was rammed into it.
I didn't mean "give an example of such a jurisdiction", I meant "give an example of infringing, non-distributional copying". --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
