[nzlug] "Consumer" report on linux

[Bruce Kingsbury]

>
> Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
> |
> | Is there such a thing as DBoC (Distributed Breach of Copyright)
> | when each of a number of people quote a "fair use" portion of the
> | document, with the aggregate being the whole document?
> |
> Ah, but what is 'a "fair use" portion'? It's not defined in statute, and
> case law says that what's "fair dealing" is a contextual, factual
> decision in every case.
> A bunch of people who all agreed to quote small sections with the
> intention of quoting the entire work would likely fall foul of the law
> because they'd be sued as a group.
>
>

Fair use does NOT simply mean 'less than 10%'. It's quite a bit more complex
than that.

Otherwise p2p users would find life a whole lot easier, since they generally
only swap small fragments (much less than 10%) of any one file from any
particular user.


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