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re: basic copyright (i.e., non-cyberlaw)--

section 106(2) of the copyright act grants the CR holder the exclusive right to prepare "derivative works," which are those works "based on" a copyrighted work, and somehow alter it, then redistirbute it. from the section 101 definition: "a work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a derivative 'work'."

i.e., this is likely a derivative work-in-progress.

the fair use defense would still apply to any infringement of the section 106(2) rights. fair use analysis has four components:

a) purpose and character of use – commercial or non-profit?

B) nature of copyrighted material?

c) amount and substantiality of CR work taken?

d) market effect

d) is probably the most important; but under a), for-profit use is likely presumptively unfair.

for B), the main distinction is fact v. fancy i.e., is one using 100 pages of data from scientific tables, or 100 pages of james joyce?

for c) there is no straight percentage; rather, e.g., 300 words is enough to damn one as an infringer (this happened to the nation, when they published the juiciest bits of president ford's memoir in a review). on the other hand, larger amounts of non-substantial stuff could be used. the standard is an abstract "no more than reasonably necessary"; i.e., ran's point above seems generally correct.

all of this might be enough to protect the activity here thusfar, without raising the issue of parody--which is likely enough.

if anyone is really interested, one should speak with a copyright attorney who knows recent cyberlaw developments.

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Wow, we've only been doing this for a year or so? Seems like we've been at it for longer. So Wolf, what pushed you to bring this thread down off the shelf and dust it off? The two current TG mauling threads not doing it for you? :P

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If you were her right now, with pigtails and a flowery dress, you'd need new dentures.

ETA: We choose what we love, centipede. Try to keep up with my associative abstractions.

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Man, it's been a while since I've known of this thread. I didn't even exist in this board when this began.

What kind of games do you play, MM?

Well, I got a wizard-rock I like to stand on. Naked.

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Are you painted white? ;)

Is corn communist?

Of course painted white. I thought that went without saying. And yes, corn is commie so long as its on the cob. Corn only has celery when it is made up of individuals that get in all your other food.

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Ok, get your socialist sex-chat out of my thread. Do it on pm or whatever. I don't want people having to wade through page upon page of you two clumsily cyber-advancing on each other when they're looking for high quality TG mauling. Have a little dignity.

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Ok, get your socialist sex-chat out of my thread. Do it on pm or whatever. I don't want people having to wade through page upon page of you two clumsily cyber-advancing on each other when they're looking for high quality TG mauling. Have a little dignity.

What? We were just discussing about the communist properties of corn, and general TG mauling. :P Besides, no TG thread is complete without...booze.

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What? We were just discussing about the communist properties of corn, and general TG mauling. :P

Yeah. You were. And you know what? It was hot. Woulda worked a Mother Confessor right up to Penthouse Letter territorty in a jiff.

Besides, no TG thread is complete without...booze.

QFT.

Thought it tends to lead to the above kinda talk... :P

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