Re: defacto copyright, Berne Convention

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ron c carman (rccarm00@mik.uky.edu)
Thu, 17 Mar 1994 11:23:42 -0500

Ed Hew <edhew@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca> wrote:
> the Berne Convention establishes that a document is
>copywritten automatically as it is written by an author. And the
>copyrights established prevent one from using more than fair use
>portion of the document in any other document.
>
>I wonder then exactly how "fair use" is defined.

And so it begins all over again. Didn't we just have this discussion
a little while back?

>Could someone please post the appropriate specifics from the
>Berne Convention document? (if permitted by copyright :))

You could also read the Copyright FAQ.

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