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The Grumpy Editor's guide to free documentation licenses
The Grumpy Editor's guide to free documentation licenses
Posted Oct 28, 2004 5:07 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to free documentation licenses by kimoto
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to free documentation licenses
Such assertions are demonstrably wrong. Without fair use, you couldn't quote even the tiniest portion of a copyrighted work, or even read aloud (what? you are performing the work without the explicit permission of the copyright holder!) and I know of no country where people fear prosecution for quoting one line of a book. That shows that everyone has some concept of fair use, even if they don't call it that.
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The Grumpy Editor's guide to free documentation licenses
Posted Oct 28, 2004 6:54 UTC (Thu) by dmantione (guest, #4640) [Link]
They do not exist in the EU, which is a larger market than the US. Instead the US has quotation rights, which allow you to quote from a document. It is a lot more restrictive than fair use.