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On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 02:26:15 +0000 (UTC), Amy Guskin
<aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:

>>>On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:33:25 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
>(in article <31tb8219rvud9g7noppaf568t52pr7ov08@4ax.com>):
>
>> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 02:33:44 +0000 (UTC), Amy Guskin
>> <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 15:42:07 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
>>> (in article <v3p382l6cskqc1naj02s7m2drtjsaebs9g@4ax.com>):
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 00:05:16 +0000 (UTC), Amy Guskin
>>>> <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:23:56 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
>>>>> (in article <v7g1825m775ftfp3a3icgqsg754e0kve8p@4ax.com>):
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> Check out what Paul Krugman said about the "global cooling" bit the
>>>>>> other day:<<
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, Josh, for all of this.  Sadly, Paul Krugman's column is now a 
>>>>> part 
>>>>> of 
>>>>> Times Select, so we can't view it unless we're paying subscribers.  I 
>>>>> guess 
>>>>> I 
>>>>> can't blame the Times, but I'm not ready to shell out $50/year yet, 
>>>>> considering I only read them occasionally.
>>>> 
>>>> Which is very frustrating for those of us who sometimes find their
>>>> words important and worth spreading! But it seems they can't do that
>>>> on ad revenue alone . . .
>>>> 
>>>> I'll be glad to forward the columns to anyone who's interested -- that
>>>> I think constitutes fair use, just as mailing a news clipping would. <<
>>> 
>>> Well, no, it wouldn't constitute fair use, actually.  But let's not get me 
>>> started on copyright - this thread's already entirely too large!
>> 
>> OK. Except that I just lied. Seems to me that it is fair use: after
>> all, you can mail someone a news clipping, and that's considered fair
>> use, so why shouldn't you be able to do the same thing electronically?<<
>
>Because cutting and pasting and sending something electronically isn't the 
>same as clipping a physical piece of newspaper.  With the paper newspaper, 
>you're giving away the physical copy that you paid for.  With the electronic 
>dissemination, you're making a copy.  You can only send the paper article 
>once, and only by depriving yourself of it.  You can send the electronic one 
>to millions of people without losing the benefit of _your_ copy, in the 
>process unjustly depriving the NY Times of all that subscription income.

Well, there is that. OTOH, sending the occasional clipping to a friend
doesn't really deprive the NY Times of subscription income -- no one
is going to spend $50 to read a single newspaper column. And the
physicality of the copy doesn't really mean much in practice -- you
could send a photocopy of a newspaper clipping and keep the original
in your file, and people routinely do.

Were it illegal to email an individual clipping, people who purchase
articles would have no way to share them with a friend or colleague,
unless perhaps they erased their copies of the original file and
agreed never to look it up in the newspaper's archives, which isn't
exactly a realistic proposition.

It seems to me that the net effect of such a restriction would be to
limit the exchange of ideas that the copyright provision was intended
to foster, and that the ultimate guide -- since as I understand it the
fair use provision is rather vague -- is common sense -- e.g., if I
were to email you the columns of your favorite Times columnist
(something a friend actually asked me to do) or if you were to email
me a copy of the intro to one of those B5 scripts I can't afford we
would be violating copyright, because in those cases we really would
be depriving the author of potential income.

-- 
Josh

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