From: | Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM> |
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Subject: | Re: Trademark and Copyright |
Date: | Wed, 13 May 1998 13:48:54 +1000 |
>|> If however you copied a page out the BBB for reference in
>|> your game its not a violation of copywrite.
>
> Sorry, but I am pretty sure that you are wrong here. Copying a page
for
>your own personal use is covered under fair use, but if you are including
it
>in a game, which you would distribute, then it is a violation of the
>copyright.
Copying a section (not just a page), for personal use, or for the use of
your gaming group, would fall under the category of fair use. Copying that
section and sticking it on your web page (even if you only told your group
about it, and it didn't have links from anywhere else to get to it)
wouldn't.
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