mlw <mlw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The "portion" of the work used is subject to interpretation. If the work is
> small, say a cartoon, "whole" may be the only portion reasonably usable as
> fair use.
Actually, if the cartoon stands alone as a creative work, I suspect it
would fail the fair use test. If it was a reprint of a frame or three
from a larger comic work, it might fly... but I am not a copyright
attorney (though I shovel enough money to one) and haven't even visited
the offending site, so take my opinion with a major grain of salt.
The point is, Roy's behavior is at best a misinterpretation of
copyright law and is easily fixed. Fair use is often a muddled issue
even in the courts, so I am willing to cut him some slack. I am more
concerned with the propensity to 'dig up dirt' on someone outside of
COLA because you dislike their statements within the forum. Perhaps
I'm being a stogy old Internet fart for wishing people would stick
to proper netiquette, but then I don't like personal mud-slinging in
political campaigns either. Its just a distraction from why we are
(ostensibly) really here.
Cheers,
Thad
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