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

[Christian Nelson]

Ed Lamoureux wrote:

> I don't believe that one can protect oneself with the "academic" veil on
> this one. We're not in class, we're not doing research on the list and its
> behavior (and even if we were, the full text of the copyright protected
> mateirals would not need to be part of the project)

research is more than data collection and number crunching.

> , we're no different from college dormies who think it's cool to use napster
> as a way to not have to pay for the right to listen to music on their
> computers.

now that cuts to the quick ;-)
and, of course, I disagree entirely but I guess that's well established