On Aug 26, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Angela Kahealani wrote:
On Sunday, 2007-08-26 13:47:02 808blogger wrote:
uh oh? did I just violate your "copyright" by re quoting this drivel
in my response? uh oh.....and that would be copyright under what
government again????
I believe that you have practiced "fair use" of copyrighted material.
808blogger's use is likely fair use, given that it is comment and
critique.
Likely that the archive of LUAUis not.
BTW, US statutes lately interpret copyright that EVERY work is
instantly
copyrighted when created, even without a copyright notice. Mine is
explicit rather than implicit.
So what purpose does your notice serve? It can only be hostile.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#noc
Use of the notice may be important because it informs the public that
the work is protected by copyright, identifies the copyright owner,
and shows the year of first publication. Furthermore, in the event
that a work is infringed, if a proper notice of copyright appears on
the published copy or copies to which a defendant in a copyright
infringement suit had access, then no weight shall be given to such a
defendant’s interposition of a defense based on innocent infringement
in mitigation of actual or statutory damages, except as provided in
section 504(c)(2) of the copyright law. Innocent infringement occurs
when the infringer did not realize that the work was protected.
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