Message-Id: <mailto:199410032135.QAA11338@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 14:33:35 -0700 From: Joshua Yeidel <mailto:yeidel@TOMAR.ACCS.WSU.EDU> Subject: Re: copyrights To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
I'm not a lawyer (I don't even play one on TV), but the people I have been meeting with about our image collection (who *are* lawyers) have a very different view of copyright law. Absence of malice or fraud is *not* a defense against charges of infringement, according to them...The application of "fair use" is more complicated. Pamela Samuelson has a series of articles discussing this in some depth in her "Legally Speaking" column for _Communications of the ACM_ (last September and January, in particular).
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On Mon, 3 Oct 1994, Lisa Weedman wrote:
> Unfortunately for artists though, copyright laws don't really protect their
> work unless it is stolen maliciously or sold under false pretenses.
>
> Lisa Weedman
> Media Services/Graphics
> The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
> mailto:ali00law@unccvm.uncc.edu
>