RE: Permission to use screenshots of databases

["Jan Carmikle" <jdcarmikle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Hard and fast rule" will never accurately describe "fair use."

Jan Carmikle
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Boeve [mailto:JBoeve@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 5:09 AM
To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Permission to use screenshots of databases

Submitted on behalf of list member Melinda Townsel
[mtownsel@xxxxxxxxxxxx]:
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Does anyone know if there is a hard and fast rule about whether it's
necessary to get permission from a database to use a screenshot from it
in a tutorial that would be open to the outside world? Wouldn't this be
fair use and thus not require permission?

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