[Air-l] Copyright issues on material transmitted to AIR-L

Christian Nelson cnelson at comm.umass.edu
Wed May 23 08:42:24 PDT 2001


Ed Lamoureux wrote:

> for what it's worth . . .
>
> I don't think that this listserve is what the law refers to by "educational
> purpose." I've always interpreted that to mean a class . . .

I'm pretty sure the full text of the law states that doing research is an
activity with an "educational purpose" they meant to exempt via "fair use,"
and this list's discussion is definitely an aid or adjunct to research if not
an integral part of doing research.





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