ENCOPE@LSUVM.BITNET (02/06/90)
In response to the recent inquiry concerning the non-commercial use of the Peitgen tapes: I'm not a lawyer, but it's my impression that "personal use" would include the showing of the tapes at engineering and other educational seminars as long as the event itself was not for profit. Thus, a person who was lecturing in the course of normal professional duties to an audience that happened to have commercial interests would not constitute a violation of the prohibition against commercial use, as the tapes are not being used expressly to produce income. But this is just my impression; I claim no legal standing for it. Still, I don't think that anyone will get into trouble for the type of educational use described (unless one is charging big admission fees to the seminars in question). -- KLC.