Re: Rights in early RFCs

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sun, 16 June 2019 00:44 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>, "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Rights in early RFCs
Thread-Topic: Rights in early RFCs
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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:44:31 +0000
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>    That would seem to fall under fair use.  How could quoting a spec NOT be 
    considered fair use.
  
Because, according to US copyright law (which is the prevailing law), there is a limit as to how much you can quote.