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Re: No longer free to write your own software either
- Subject: Re: No longer free to write your own software either
- From: "Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 03:22:54 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Intermedia iAmerica - http://www.iamworld.net
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Nope.
There is no such thing as a copyright "personal use" exemption.
Making a copy of an entire Steven King novel in longhand is just as much a
copyright violation as a photocopy would be. Same as duplicating Win98
(although you are allowed to make one archival copy or adaptation of a
program you already own). With irrelevant narrow exceptions, making copies
in toto is also not fair use.
"Marsha Jackson" <menacechgo@aol.com> wrote in message
39BC0A4C.C71846A6@aol.com">news:39BC0A4C.C71846A6@aol.com...
>
> Copyright laws certain 'personal use' exemptions, so if I want to
transcribe the
> latest Steven King to read by my own handwriting, or if I want to recode a
program
> so it works exactly like Windows98 down to the last pixel... as long as
I'm doing
> it for myself it's perfectly legal.