March 22, 2004


Three times in the last two weeks people have offered me a copy of a CD (twice) or video (once) that they had bought, but offered the caveat that they'd understand if I had a moral problem with copying stuff. Even if it were illegal I'd have no moral problem, of course, and the reasons are nicely laid out in the 1984 US Supreme Court decision that explicitly states that copying copyrighted stuff for personal use is "fair use," and totally legal. The USSC upheld this part that I especially like:

Even when an entire copyrighted work was recorded, [p.426] the District Court regarded the copying as fair use "because there is no accompanying reduction in the market for 'plaintiff's original work.'"
Just so you know.
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Super good traffic monitoring of the sort that Boston needs. What a great public service! How hard can this be to set up? (Yes, I know it wouldn't be free.) Our local traffic status information sources kind of suck. Update: Lee points us to a partial (and growing, hopefully) traffic map of Boston. Thanks, Lee!
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