Didn't mean to imply that you had, just that such has been a matter of debate from the founding fathers on.
As you said, "fair use" encompasses utilization for educational purposes as well as as limited use for artistic expression. This site and others are all about interactive education within the collective in the use of ancient hardware and operating systems for playing with ancient software packages.
My favorite copyright issue would be for "Fonts" as the term for singular Typeface Designs has been perverted since the advent of desktop publishing. The Copyright Office disallowed copyright protection for "computerized typeface" design in the late 80s. Policy has always been that you can't copyright the Alpha-Bet, printing press mfr's have never been allowed to limit end users to their own Typeface Design products by use of copyright. Vested interests such as Adobe fought tooth and nail to preserve copyright protection for their digitized libraries and finally got a decision that the "Software" for the use of their "computerized/digitized" individual typeface products was protected. Names for typefaces have always been protected by copyright, the typestyle "data" in even Adobe's fonts remains unprotected.
That's background for my favorite experience involving copyright: After a jury session I was getting my car at the parking garage and mentioned the above to someone else doing the same. This New York City Real Estate lawyer got that avaricious gleam in his eye and responded: "AH! Intellectual Property! Now there's a sticky wicket!"
'nuf said. :
As you said, "fair use" encompasses utilization for educational purposes as well as as limited use for artistic expression. This site and others are all about interactive education within the collective in the use of ancient hardware and operating systems for playing with ancient software packages.
My favorite copyright issue would be for "Fonts" as the term for singular Typeface Designs has been perverted since the advent of desktop publishing. The Copyright Office disallowed copyright protection for "computerized typeface" design in the late 80s. Policy has always been that you can't copyright the Alpha-Bet, printing press mfr's have never been allowed to limit end users to their own Typeface Design products by use of copyright. Vested interests such as Adobe fought tooth and nail to preserve copyright protection for their digitized libraries and finally got a decision that the "Software" for the use of their "computerized/digitized" individual typeface products was protected. Names for typefaces have always been protected by copyright, the typestyle "data" in even Adobe's fonts remains unprotected.
That's background for my favorite experience involving copyright: After a jury session I was getting my car at the parking garage and mentioned the above to someone else doing the same. This New York City Real Estate lawyer got that avaricious gleam in his eye and responded: "AH! Intellectual Property! Now there's a sticky wicket!"
'nuf said. :