At 04:31 PM 1/28/00 -0600,Alexandra wrote: >I hope Mike Goad will enter this discussion. Here is what I copied from >him earlier this month. (Let's call it "fair use"!) Mike says, > >My personal opinion is that three pages of anything copyrighted would be >excessive. In the U.S. such usage would come under the principle of >"fair use" which allows "limited" copying. Three pages would seem to be >more than "limited." > >I have a page on "fair use" at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikegoad/html/copyright9.htm >part of my copyright site at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikegoad/copyright1.htm I had already responded to a private query from Bettie on this so hadn't planned to comment here. The only thing I could really add to what Alexandra has quoted is that each of the pages for the above site has a link to an index of the actual copyright code. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikegoad/html/code.htm In section 106 it says: the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies... Mike