Title 17, Section 107
 

OK I found the actual title. I looked this up on the internet (not that I believe ANYTHING I read on the internet) and couldn't find much in terms of verification but I did find a few other people using it:

"Written material or images copyrighted under U.S. law may be used here without permission. United States Code, Title 17, Section 107, provides for fair use of copyrighted materials for purposes of comment and criticism in a nonprofit manner."

My philosophy on the subject of copyright is, sadly enough, not very helpful to other people. My philosophy is that I'm too poor to be affected. I'm too poor to keep my computer running at night or buy a new one if I run it all the time and the hard drive goes, and therefore I'm probably in the lowest 1% of files downloaded and uploaded. I'm also too poor to bother taking to court if you're Steven Spielberg and you see a picture of Harrision Ford on a website I operate that praises the s*** out of you and your movies anyway.

If Microsoft or any other huge, evil company wanted to make an example out of someone for dressing like a fool in public I'd be their girl; but as far as copyright goes they'd look stupid coming after me. I know this doesn't help saying this, because maybe someday I will have enough money to download zillions of free files....

Wait a minute. Does anyone see the irony in that?

'US' 'Law' has a major play on what gets displayed on the net as such, but their laws are not universal, & copyright laws vary from country to country as to their 'real' control. (It can take quite some effort & time (& a lot more money) to muster an attack upon individuals in countries where the copyright laws don't apply (or even apply for that matter!) It ends up of course on a national political level & man can money walk hand in hand with politics when major political financial supporters kick up the dust! And dust ends up in everybody's eyes (propaganda.) But, when the US is paly with another country, favors can be done. ('Who' was it 'talking' again?) [One way or another it equates to the same language!] I have a friend who had political influence indirectly put upon him via the US to closedown his site in 'more ways than one'. He still publishes his works, though on a more lower level. Requests for his works pm me (do NOT email me!) So much for 'Free Speech'! I wonder why .... So much for democracy & the country of the free. (Free to do what exactly?)

As for me, I think as long as you aren't using the music you're sharing to earn profit, it should be legal. But, the govt always has different views.

So basically. use LW and hope you don't get caught.

Interesting point of view. Which brings me to answer a previous point in a post about utilising pics on websites. Apparently in USA you can utilise pics on your website that don't belong to you so long as it's not for profitable purposes (I can't remember the specific law no. but can locate it if necessary.) That's certainly different to my country's laws. No wonder people are keen to set up websites in the US. However as for music... if there's copyright then it generally applies to playback for public issues that must be followed.

Bosnianheat26 using p2p for accessing music you might otherwise have bought is an issue. But if you would not have bought it, but just dwnlded it out of curiousity or to try it out so to speak, then (as another opinion) arguably it shouldn't be considered as bad. If you decided the music inspired you, then you could go out & buy further recordings of that artist. Try before you buy type of thing. And then of course there's those music lovers who can never get enough of the music they buy & are forced to find alternative sources for recordings such as live concerts that would never be commercially released to the public. I know people who fall into that category.

That One Law About Pics In the U.S.
 

Saw this on a website. Hi Lord!
TTYL

COPYRIGHT ISSUES AND FAIR USE
This site may contain copyrighted material, the use of which may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making this material available in efforts to advance the understanding of different issues related to this subject of the site, talented and attractive xxxxxxxx actress xxxxx xxxxx. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of the US Copyright Law. If you wish to use such copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use' you MUST obtain permission from the copyright owner.

IN OTHER WORDS this is a non-profit site, and if you see your material here:

(1) thanks! and (2) you're getting a free plug, so chill.

If this is not your material and you plan on borrowing it, that's cool with us, but you do it at your own risk, and we would appreciate it if you'd be polite and give credit to the actual owners because unlike you and me they have a real job.

In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml

United States Code: Title 17, Section 107
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/unframed/17/107.html

It's a good law because....
 

Besides the obvious reasons, many fansites for actors and actresses come and go. Because of this law, you can go around and gack pictures from existing fansites and keep them handy to post on your own site if the site you got them from disappears.

Jacq

There are plenty of services available where you can listen to all the music you want to by anyone. The new Napster, for one. But if you want to download the song to burn to disc then you have to pay a dollar per song. I guess that isn't such a bad deal. And supposedly there is no danger of viruses and stuff like that.

Still, I think it should be free.

Settings Info From My WinMX
 

Well, yes you cannot take pictures and use direct links for websites for thats copyright laws BUT if you SAVE the pictures and host them yourself through something like Imageshack or photobucket, then it's completly legal. Like proboards will shut down sites if they see a single direct link through the smilies because you cxan customize smilies, I almost got busted for that once

Did you realize that the last post was over 3 months ago? :D :D ;)