From: Brian J. T. <bj...@co...> - 2005-08-05 08:19:53
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Stembridge wrote: > On 8/4/05, Brian J. Tarricone <bj...@co...> wrote: > >>Certainly not. But you don't need copyright control to make fair use of >>the data you already have. Well, at least in the normal world. The >>RIAA/MPAA and similar groups are trying very hard to put us in some >>bizarro world were this stuff isn't legal. > > Fair use? Afaik we have no such thing here in the UK. IIRC, there's something in the UK called "fair dealing" which is similar. Unfortunately, it seems such things aren't all that developed in the UK, so the waters are a bit muddy. > Anyway, uploading someone else's meta deta to a server for distribution > wouldn't seem to fall under fair use, in my opinion anyway. Of course not. I was pointing out that if another service downloaded metadata that was cached on a user's disk, I'd find it hard to believe that it's not legal to privately use that data in any way you wish (absenting the bizarro world that the MPAA/RIAA/etc. want us to live in). On a side note, who *really* owns the metadata? The artist named the songs and album (presumably). How can a third party claim to "own" a list of the track titles? Why are the titles of songs any less copyrightable and non-distributable than the album art? Bah. IP law. Makes me want to vomit. -brian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC8yEc6XyW6VEeAnsRAuxDAJ9/q75YeWbywll/e/0RySYrXLZ2IwCeP7x8 2QjEzxQgbxtb4P5A4qDiaG8= =hQqD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |