[WikiEN-l] Is it true...

[Stephen Bain]

On 12/22/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> You're half right.  Fair use is a defense for copyright violation.
> But if you successfully defend against a charge of copyright
> violation, it means the copyright violation hasn't occurred.  Copying
> may have occurred, but not a copyright violation.
>
> For an analogy, insanity is a defense for murder.  And if the accused
> successfully defends against a charge of murder using the insanity
> defense, it means a murder hasn't occurred.  Killing might have
> occurred, but not murder.

A fitting analogy. It evokes particularly well the "shoot first and
hope for the best" attitude of many users around here to copyright law
:)

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com