At 09:14 PM 8/29/97 PDT, Amalyah wrote:
>Don't you think a case could be made for a reproduction in a stolen art
database
>
>qualifying for a Fair Use exception as newsreporting?

But after it is missing for a day or two it is no longer news.

No, the right to reproduce such images outside of copyright restriction
proceeds from the fact that it is in the interest of society -- its
stability, its sense of right -- to do so.  If the law does not provide for
this right, it should.  Similarly (and here is the punch), the interests of
the furtherance of scholarship and science is served by a liberal
interpretation of fair use.  When the reproduction of an object clearly
serves the ends of teaching and adds to the advancement of the science of
learning, then the private interest of copyright should be abridged.

This exception does not include yet another picture book on Cubism, but it
will include new scholarly studies on Cubism and the collection of the raw
materials scholars need to research and teach.