*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** I would say about 20 percent of the online news sites that I cut and paste parts of news stories seem to employ some HTML/browser feature that does not allow easy cutting and pasting. To get around this I sometimes click on the "Edit Page" feature and active Netscape Composer or review the page source and edit out the HTML by hand. While I am careful not to send out the full text of copyrighted news stories it seems that "fair use" rights no longer apply to situations where web sites have opted to use HTML code that make selecting and copying text difficult. Am I wrong? Will I go to jail for five years if caught? It seems odd to me that retyping five sentences by hand is legal, while cutting and pasting through a backdoor method could land you in jail for five years. Steven Clift Democracies Online Newswire See: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/anticirc.html http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001030S0006 >From the law: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR: Sec. 1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems `(a) VIOLATIONS REGARDING CIRCUMVENTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES- (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter. - clip - Sec. 1204. Criminal offenses and penalties “(a) In General—Any person who violates section 1201 or 1202 willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain— “(1) shall be fined not more than $500,000 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both, for the first offense; and “(2) shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both, for any subsequent offense. “(b) Limitation for Nonprofit Library, Archives, or Educational Institution—Subsection (a) shall not apply to a nonprofit library, archives, or educational institution. “(c) Statute of Limitations—No criminal proceeding shall be brought under this section unless such proceeding is commenced within 5 years after the cause of action arose. ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net Minneapolis - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. ***
