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[sharon@asylum.sf.ca.us (Sharon Fisher)]

Path: asylum!sharon
From: sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Subject: Re: Interview-transcribing
Date: 3 Nov 89 07:14:47 GMT
References: <1851.AA1851@radlein>
Reply-To: sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <1851.AA1851@radlein> ray@radlein.UUCP (Ray Radlein) writes:
>
>In a message of <29 Oct 89 02:50:44 GMT>, Sharon Fisher writes:
>
>> Perhaps it's because I'm a writer by trade, but I find this wholesale
>> copying of published material disturbing.  It's illegal.  It's unethical.
>> You guys are setting yourself up for some nasty copyright violation
>> suits.
>
>I should think that this falls fairly solidly under the heading of "Fair
>Use"; Love-Hounds is, after all, an organization dedicated to the scholarly
>and critical analysis of Kate Bush, her music, and its interaction with
>society. Therefore, the non-profit reproduction and distribution of this
>material within the confines of rec.music.gaffa and the love-hounds mailing
>list is (in my opinion, at least) protected under Fair Use statutes.

That is not what fair use means.  It means that you can quote a couple
of lines of something and the owner of the copyright won't get upset
about it.  It has little to do with the actual purpose of the
quotation.