Copyright (was PDFs and tapeworm descriptions)

[Susan B. Farmer]

My favorite copyright web site used to be

        www.benedict.com/basic/basic.htm

Another good web site is:

        palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/intprop/circ1.html

There is still some good information there, but they've jazzed it
it, and it's difficult to find the information that you want.
There's a good piece about what Fair Use is and the 4 criteria

        1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether
           such use, including whether such use is of a commercial
           nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
        2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
        3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation
           to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
        4. the effect of the use upon the potential marked for or value
           of the copyrighted work.


>From an earlier edition of their web site I have the following information
on the duration of copyright.

        1. if the work was published before 1978, the copyright expired
           75 years from the date of publication *IF* the copyright was
           renewed -- otherwise the copyright expired in 28 years.
        2. works published 1978 to present, duration is life of the
           (last surviving) author plus 50 years.

Susan
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Botany Department, University of Tennessee
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