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To: Kashish King who wrote (993)	4/30/2000 3:17:00 AM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) of 1116

They profit from the copying service, and the availability of the service has the potential to affect the demand for legal copies. So it can't possibily be fair use. Dumb, your conclusion does not follow from your argument. The manufacturers of scanners and copiers profit their products and they have the potential to affect the demand for legal copies. So it can't possibly be fair use. Right? Fair use applies in cases that would otherwise be considered copyright infringement. It is an exception to the rule that it's illegal to make unauthorized copies. The rule doesn't apply in the cases you mentioned, so obviously the exception is irrelevent. If the courts apply precedent, what mp3.com did was clearly illegal. It is, of course, possible that a court could extend the "fair use" doctrine, but this is very unlikely to happen. There is a simple solution to this problem that doesn't involve the law. The copyright holders can give their consent. Is there something that makes this impossible? Not that I can see. So there is no urgent need to revise the law.

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