Defiant wrote:
Now you're a lawyer in addition to a saint? Pray tell, describe the effect of a 9th circuit decision on cyberlaw on a 5th circuit court, in the absence of Supreme Court direction? What are the ethical obligations of a lawyer in connection with legal decisions which are not binding, but perhaps instructive, and how about if the parallel court's decision is wrongly reasoned? Do let us know your reasoning process, St. Quidnunc, because I so value your opinion. Merely stating an uneducated belief does not a fact make.I suggest that you spend a profitable few hours and study what's in the Stanford University Copyright & Fair Use Center web site here:
a href=http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/index.html
Colleges and universities have to be very mindful of copyright l;aw because of they have many, many students and professors publishing theses, dissertations and papers.
You have provided this link before, reminding me of the exchange in "A Fish Called Wanda". Otto is very fond of citing Nietzche and other German philosophers. He does something stupid, and Wanda excoriates him.
"Was that smart, Otto? Or was it stupid?"
"Don't call me stupid."
"Right. To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people, you big ape."
Otto smiles knowingly, and softly issues his rejoinder: "Apes don't read philosophy".
"Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it".