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| DATE | 2007-08-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Fair Use, anyone?
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:50:52PM -0400, Ron Guerin wrote:
> This is a question for Ruben, but I'm sure he'd prefer to answer it
> publicly, so I'm going to ask it here.
>
> What do you make of this?
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/worlds-largest-.html
>
> This girl was convicted of filming 20 seconds of a movie. Doesn't that
> seem ... uhm... un-Constitutional? If twenty seconds doesn't fall under
> Fair Use, what does?
>
> - Ron
Was it in the theater when filmed, or from a VHS? She has an idiot lawyer since we SAW
Time Warner film by a camcorder 20 seconds of Sipiderman I film as an EXAMPLE of Fair Use
at the DMCA hearing. So should we form a protest and get ourselves arrested as well?
Ruben
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"> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.<
You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attacted at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one."
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