At 11:08 AM 1/24/94 -0600, Jim choate wrote:
Each user who calls my system will need agree to a statement of something like the following:
I don't think you necessarily need this agreement. First off, I think you don't understand fair use -- it is not a right the author grants, EVERYONE has the right to fair-use of ANY copyrighted document. For instance, the Supreme Court recently said that recording material off cable for personal use only was fair-use--giving it to another was not. Secondly, I think there is an implied contract between you and the person that provides the content that you will make it available to others--they would not have any reason to give it to you otherwise. If others that you pass it to abuse it by going beyond fair-use, that is not your liability, but is theirs. I'm not an attorney, but you may want to find someone on the net that is. Try the cni-copyright@cni.org list, or misc.legal newsgroup. ..Christopher Allen ..Consensus Develoment Corporation ..4104-24th Street #419 ..San Francisco, CA 94114-3615 ..(415) 647-6384 Fax ..(415) 647-6383 Voice ..email: consensus@netcom.com ..mosaic frontpage: .."ftp://netcom.com/pub/consensus/www/ConsensusFrontDoor.html"