On 1/26/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Fair use is only one small corner of copyright law. In many respects I agree with both of you. International copyright law as we know it is incredibly complex, but adopting a policy based on lowest common denominatior of risk aversion is paranoia at the same time.
That would be Mexican copyright terms of life plus 100 years. We don't follow them.
Risk frightens most people, and they would prefer not to take any at all. It's no wonder that the risk averse will win nearly every time the matter comes to a vote somewhere.
That makes the rather flawed assumption that people understand the risks. They don't.
That being said, and as important as discussions about copyright are. at this juncture they tend to set this important discussion off on a tangent. The need (or lack of need) to deal with sourcing issues will still be there with or without copyritght material.
I was demonstrating that cite and RS ware hardly unique.