Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 21:03:37 07/22/98
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On July 22, 1998 at 23:23:13, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Tim: >I think that what you call fair use is more or less what i have been trying to >express here with not much luck. A copy or two, ocassionally given to somebody >(hope you can denoy that, black point, to a friend?) falls inside the category >fair use. Maybe is not the best, but clearly is not stealing as Bob and Bruce >see it looking only at the legal aspect of the issue. Technically the courts may not agree with you here, but I'm not sure someone would be prosecuted for giving a game to a friend. I seem to remember reading about a ruling to this effect, I'll see if I can find it. In any case, fair use _is_ a legal concept, as is the concept of "first sale", the idea that the publisher can only claim royalties on or otherwise restrict only the first sale of a work.
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