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kairos12

(12,850 posts) Fri Mar 22, 2013, 10:06 AM Mar 2013

Don't arrest me

For clipping the article on how you can't clip an article or so says Federal Judge.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/21/federal-judge-clipping-news-articles-violates-copyright-law/

Probably only a commercial thing, but it does give one pause.

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Don't arrest me (Original Post) kairos12 Mar 2013 OP

some laws are in themselves reasons to break said law. Phillip McCleod Mar 2013 #1

One can not steal and resell the work of another in order to profit from their labor. Bluenorthwest Mar 2013 #2

Phillip McCleod

(1,837 posts)

1. some laws are in themselves reasons to break said law.

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 10:34 AM

Mar 2013

a law against flag-burning, for instance, is the only legitimate reason i can think of to burn a flag.

a law against downloading crappy hollywood movies is the best reason to download them into /dev/null.

and a law against clipping AP articles is the best reason i can think of to go abso-fucking-lutely crazy copying AP articles into Pastebin by the fistful.

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

2. One can not steal and resell the work of another in order to profit from their labor.