Klarinet Archive - Posting 000244.txt from 2009/02

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Fair Use
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:16:56 -0500

I wasn't going to participate in this thread anymore, because I honestly
think Jonathan is arguing because he likes to argue, not because he
really believes what he is saying, but I can't let this go.

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.org> wrote:
> The question was whether making a personal copy of a piece that you
> own is a copyright violation. If it has never been adjudicated as a
> copyright violation (and it has not) then VERY LIKELY IT IS NOT A
> COPYRIGHT VIOLATION. End of story.
>

This is just imaginative horseshit. **IF** you had said, "very likely
you will never be sued", then I would agree with you completely. But
that sentence as you have written it is both untrue and unsupported by
your premises.

End of story.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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