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Provide historical background on these Night Entertainment Areas as well as trending of sociological changes and demographics in the Bangkok Night Entertainment environment.

Provide movie reviews on films currently showing in Bangkok and in the Kingdom of Thailand.

Provide book reviews on books relevant to Thailand and Southeast Asia.

Provide other items of general interest and use to residents, visitors and/or potential visitors to Bangkok.

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"One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords.   This right is subject to certain limitations found in sections 107 through 118 of the copyright law (Title 17, U. S. Code).   One of the more important limitations is the doctrine of “fair use.”   The doctrine of fair use has developed through a substantial number of court decisions over the years and has been codified in Section 107 of the copyright law.

Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.   Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:

QUOTE   -  Title 17 of the United States Code:


Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.   In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:

1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; 2. The nature of the copyrighted work;

3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole;

and,

4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.


: END QUOTE -  Title 17 of the United States Code

There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission.   Acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not substitute for obtaining permission.

The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.”

(End of Government Publication)