Stirling Newberry wrote:
On Feb 10, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Stirling Newberry
<stirling.newberry(a)xigenics.net> writes:
Which works only in a world without copyright and
with everyone
having a 7 second attention span.
Do you think you are allowed to store a collection of "citations" of
copyright protected works?
Being copyright does not prevent a work from being cited.
Ec
But it does prevent a complete copy from being stored where we can
search it.
Would we want that anyway? If
amazon.com wants to fight that copyright
battle maybe they should. There is still the possibility that a text
could be in private rather than public storage. This would allow for
searching which would give only limited segments of texts as results,
but would block people from downloading anything larger. That should
fall within fair use.
Ec