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Old 2006-08-27, 08:14 AM   #1
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I'm not a lawyer and you shouldn't base your decisions regarding legality on anything I tell you. But there's good information about copyright and "fair use" on these pages:

Copyright and Fair Use Overview

What is Fair Use?

--excert on Fair Use: In its most general sense, a fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and "transformative" purpose such as to comment upon, criticize or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses can be done without permission from the copyright owner. Another way of putting this is that fair use is a defense against infringement. If your use qualifies under the definition above, and as defined more specifically later in this chapter, then your use would not be considered an illegal infringement.

Lots more information linked from the two pages above.
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