[Fsf-friends] Re: [ilugd] eben moglen on tv + webcasting

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

Linux Lingam wrote:> 
> ah there's an interesting twist to this debate.
> suppose as an end-user publishes a video from a commercial tv
> broadcaster on say, youtube, for explicitly non-commercial end-use,
> and to share with others. this is quite similar to the 'fair use'
> terms often sited by wikipedia.

I believe fair use is only about 10 seconds of copyrighted multimedia
and that also when the intention is just to show an excerpt related to 
a larger content. Putting a whole program would probably be an offense even from
a layman's POV.

- Sandip