Message-Id: <mailto:199412051836.MAA09279@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 10:34:15 -0800 From: Peter Rauch <mailto:peterr@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU> Subject: Re: copyright (yet again) To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
In SCIENCE (AAAS), 25 Nov 94, pg. 1315, "Court Says No to Copying Articles", Andrew Lawler reports:"Thinking of photocopying an article from your favorite journal? Think again. Last month a three-member federal appeals court in New Your ruled that a Texaco Corp. scientist violated copyright laws by making one copy each of eight articles in a scientific journal and placing them in his files."
The article goes on to give some of the details about the case. Of particular note is the comment "[a]lthough copyright law allows "fair use" of published material, the court ruled that Chickering's actions did not fit that category because, rather than using the articles, he simply copied them and filed them in his office."
"The suit was filed in 1985....." Peter