<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 16, 2006, at 10:31 AM, John Richardson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hello,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I wanted an opinion before I sent anything. Just being lazy and not wanting</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to read every legal document. I'll send the iPod (unopened in it's box) and</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">research the issue further. Thanks.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The original post was at 6:11PM PST and it's 10:30AM PST now.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Glad to have provided the list with it's Friday thrill thread..........</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">John F. Richardson</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>*</DIV><DIV>John: I sent a brief write-up on the definition of 'fair use', but it wasn't brief enough. The moderator likes posts that are less than about 5K bytes; mine was a bit over 10k. (Must be a Berkeley guy :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The gist was this:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Take a look at the Stanford Law School library's site on "Copyright and Fair Use":</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <A href="http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-a.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0011ED">http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-a.html</FONT></A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This gives a brief and easy-to-understand definition of 'fair use'.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>earle</DIV><DIV>*</DIV></BODY></HTML>