>appeals court finds thumbnails of images from another site are
>fair use, but originals are infringing, including linking and
>framing. some are saying this spells "the end of linking and
>framing without permission"
>
>http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=
>Article&cid=ZZZF07DWDXC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsumm
>ary=0
>
this is kind of fascinating since they ruled thumbnails are transformative
and therefore qualify for fair use.
i was always under the impression that transformative re-use wasn't a
suitable fair use defense. is this changing??? i thought we had to rely
on parody to save the day.
philo
http://detritus.net/illegalart/
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