Re: [Air-l] Copyright issues on material transmitted to AIR-L

Ed Lamoureux wrote:

I don't believe that one can protect oneself with the "academic" veil on this one. We're not in class, we're not doing research on the list and its behavior (and even if we were, the full text of the copyright protected mateirals would not need to be part of the project)

research is more than data collection and number crunching.

, we're no different from college dormies who think it's cool to use napster as a way to not have to pay for the right to listen to music on their computers.

now that cuts to the quick ;-) and, of course, I disagree entirely but I guess that's well established