The complaint is they shouldn't take a stance or at least one that is a little less firm.
The permissions thing, we can all agree if it's a new movie that just came out, ok, yes, don't be spreading that.
What if instead it's an academic journal article from 1930 in a publication that ceased operating in say 1940? You also don't have permission for this and it's still also under copyright.
The strict interpretation would be "not that one either" while there's also some who say "it's ok, there's nobody to even ask, let historians do research".
So some prefer to be grey about it like many are with obscenity and pornography. We don't for example, hide renaissance paintings with exposed beasts away from the public in basements for fear of getting shutdown by the police.
The permissions thing, we can all agree if it's a new movie that just came out, ok, yes, don't be spreading that.
What if instead it's an academic journal article from 1930 in a publication that ceased operating in say 1940? You also don't have permission for this and it's still also under copyright.
The strict interpretation would be "not that one either" while there's also some who say "it's ok, there's nobody to even ask, let historians do research".
So some prefer to be grey about it like many are with obscenity and pornography. We don't for example, hide renaissance paintings with exposed beasts away from the public in basements for fear of getting shutdown by the police.
There's a spirit of the law as well.