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From: "Jim Boyce" <>
Subject: Re: [LIN] NBI requests, sorry no look-ups
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:38:43 -0500
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"Sissins Detective" wrote: "the licence [for the NBI] does not permit this
[lookups]."

I am curious. Do these CDs come with an actual licence that the purchaser
signs or otherwise legally agrees to? If not, no amount of saying, "These
CDs are sold only on the condition that..." can negate the fair use
provisions of copyright, under which the purchaser of any copyrighted
material can make as many copies of the the information contained therein as
they like and distribute them as widely as they please, so long as this
copying and distribution is not done for commercial gain.
I am further curious. Were none of these sold to libraries?

Jim Boyce
Geneva, Switzerland
Home of the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and of TRIPS
(The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights),
whereby the extent and limitations of the copyright laws of even the UK are
defined by Treaty obligations.


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