libertyart opened this issue on Feb 22, 2004 ยท 43 posts
keihan posted Fri, 27 February 2004 at 4:11 PM
Ynsaen, You should read "Fair Use" more closely as it is there in Black and white: QUOTED FROM copyright.gov website: The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the authors observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported. Generally if the courts have regarded this as FAIR USE, then YES one is protected by law from being sued. So, you are protected under statute. As long as it falls within the guidlines it's all good.