24 Jun
2000
24 Jun
'00
9:20 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 06:14:17PM -0700, Chuck McManis wrote:
I think Allison was talking about the "fair use" principle, which *does*
allow you to publish small excerpt of copyrighted works without royalties
under particular conditions. Book reviews, etc... This can be a gray area
since people can disagree over how big an excerpt has to be before it's
too big. You certainly can't publish an entire Stephen King novel, tack
the line "I liked it!" on the end, and get away with it.
John Wilson
D Bit
The
copyright means you can't make copies
of it (other than limited amounts for reference with attribution) to sell
or give away without expressed permission.
Again, this isn't quite correct. The rights to make copies of a "work"
initially rest with the creator of that work. The creator (author what have
you) can then choose to grant limited subsets of those rights (or not) to
other people.