[darcs-users] Re: how to redistribute darcs+Eclipse

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho antti-juhani at kaijanaho.info
Thu Jun 9 12:01:59 UTC 2005


On 20050609T121058+0100, Jamie Webb wrote:
> Copyright law has specific exceptions for derived works created for
> the purpose of journalism or parody. It's considered 'fair use'.

Actually, that is not accurate.  US copyright law has a broad "fair use"
exception, and the case law includes interpretations that certain
journalistic uses and certain parodies are fair use (not all of either).
Other countries generally have no concept of "fair use", instead they
have specific statutory exceptions, for example for some  journalistic
uses.

The situation is murky enough that it's best to ignore fair use when
talking about computer programs.

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