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| Vigo:
--- Quote from: shponglefan on April 03, 2015, 11:04:42 am ---I'm not aware of any explicit "personal use" clause within the copyright act. As I understand copyright law, fair use is specific to review, criticism, reporting, and education. It does not give people a free license to copy whatever they please as long as they don't sell it. --- End quote --- You are right that it is not specifically addressed in the law. Many countries like Canada and UK have private copying exemptions and the US doesn't. In the US it is implied only. The part of the law I was addressing was the part 1 of the fair use test, which tests whether or not the intent was for profit or commercial gain. It does not list the uses allowed. That is deliberate, because there are many potential not for profit uses. Educational and nonprofit are specific cited examples to make those exclusions clear, but in a nutshell, test 1 is simply looking at commercial or financial gain and private use passes the test. I can actually use copyrighted material for my work as well. Even though I work for a commercial, profit-making company, I make a lot of safety education materials, and I am fairly well defended under fair use. I might be pushing the envelope if I put Mickey Mouse on a safety posters (not to mention running into trademark issues), but I in essence can pull whatever safety info I find and reuse or adapt it without any permission. Also, in the law, there is the library exclusion, stating that private personal copies or materials made available may be made if it is not for any commercial advantage or made available to the public in that same format. There are also transformative use protections, giving rights to alter or use work to in order create new works. If having the base materials is illegal, then by logic, there could be no legal transformative work. |
| pbj:
#JustKeepPosting |
| nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: Gatsu on April 02, 2015, 10:01:46 pm --- --- Quote from: opt2not on April 02, 2015, 08:40:44 pm ---lol, sorry Gatsu, I meant to be speaking in general terms. Don't get me wrong, I have no ill feelings toward you, I'm definitely a fan of your projects and your contribution to the arcade community. It's just these ethical questions about art that always gets me heated. ;) --- End quote --- I understand man. It's no problem. And I appreciate it. I get where some of the comments people are posting are coming from, though some seem to just be inflammatory just for the sake of being so. Ultimately...I know what my intent was with the post. And it certainly wasn't what most of the commenters seem to have made it out to be. It just sucks how it's gotten so blown out of proportion. --- End quote --- It sucks and a heated discussion about copyright & trademark & licenses on this forum is quite ironic. Now if you will excuse me i'm going to go play one of the hundreds of ROMS's ive downloaded off the internet in my scratch built exact replica arcade cabinet made from scanned & printed original art i don't own with MAME. which is totally legal if I keep it for my own personal use & don't try to sell it to anyone. ::) |
| Le Chuck:
I've got this hard drive full of games I didn't pay for and will likely never play. I've got a copy of photoshop I probably didn't pay for but do use for personal expression. If that hard drive crashes in the woods and falls on the maybe unlicensed Photoshop is there anyone to hear your indignant outrage? |
| pbj:
That depends. Did you slightly tweak some artwork and affix it to the hard drive before the tree fell on it? |
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