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For each of the following situations decide if the use is legal or not
(based on the fair use criteria):
a. You publish a paper to the Internet and re-use a diagram found in a
book. Your web-site is a subscriber (user's pay you money) based web-site.
b. You go to the library to check out CDs and then upload the music into
your PC. You play this music on your MP/3 player for the next year or so.

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Concept of fair use
The nature of intellectual property/copyright is importantly different from physical property. In particular, one individual's use of an idea does not make that idea unavailable to others for their own, simultaneous use. Furthermore, new ideas almost invariably ...

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