Letter to Editor: Response to Florian Mueller's Release re: "Anti-IP" [LWN.net]

Letter to Editor: Response to Florian Mueller's Release re: "Anti-IP"

Posted Sep 1, 2005 22:15 UTC (Thu) by Differance (guest, #18916)
In reply to: Letter to Editor: Response to Florian Mueller's Release re: "Anti-IP" by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Letter to Editor: Response to Florian Mueller's Release re: "Anti-IP"

> Even if we agree, at least for a moment, that arguing
> on the basis of a copyright carve-out is not
> identical to acting "against copyright", it's still
> not a self-sufficient argument for saying "the bnetd
> case is not against copyright". At the most, the
> reliance upon the Fair Use definition is neutral with
> respect to the concept of copyright.

Bunk again. Copyright is an exception to Fair Use, not the other way around. The statute describes both fair use and the particular rights accorded to authors.

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