Re: New Video Educates Students on Illegal File Sharing

[Jordan Wiens <numatrix () UFL EDU>]

Nate Johnson wrote:
> Rizzo, James wrote:
> > I am also not a lawyer, but I believe the fair use clause of
> > copyright law allows for you to make copies of a recording for
> > personal use.
>
> The fair use clause of the copyright act allows an author to reproduce
> material without the permission of the copyright holder, but for only
> the purposes of criticism, scholarship and parody, not personal use.

Tell that to the Supreme Court justices who decided Sony v. Betamax,
establishing time-shifting as legal fair use.

It's certainly not scholarship, criticism, or parody, just personal use.
 So there most certainly are some fair uses that are purely personal.

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Jordan Wiens, CISSP
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