Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:25:00 -0200 (BRST)

On 20 Nov 2002, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:57, Thomas Langås wrote:
> > If someone snags 10-20 secs of a song,
> > and puts it into his/her song that's violation of the copyrights (given
> > that the person didn't ask for permission). But, then there's "what's the
> > minimum"-question
>
> 7 seconds for music.

Even more fun is that this limit probably varies per country
and governments are tending towards applying their own law
against every work which is made available to their country,
regardless of where it is being published from...

Rik

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