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[Phoenix257]

I've done a lot of research about copyrights and "fair use", and I think i have the answer.

Math cannot be copyrighted. One cannot claim rights to the equation 2 + 3 = 5. The way a person describes math can be, however.

A single math problem cannot be prevented from entering the public domain, just like people cannot claim rights to the definition of the word "problem". You can cite the math problem under the fair use doctrine and use it in whatever way you want. However, a larger piece of work, such as the sprint round, can be copyrighted because it contains a unique set of problems that are designed to illustrate certain mathematical principles. The dictionary contains the definition for the word "problem"; one cannot reproduce an entire dictionary and trade/sell it to other people, but one can openly discuss the definition of the word "problem".

If a math club owns a copy of, say, the 2006 target round, that math club can openly use it for its own people under fair use. However, if that math club started to reproduce the 2006 target round and began to mass produce it, fair use would no longer apply. When arguing fair use, the nature of the action is also considered. By mass distributing the paper, your action supercedes MATHCOUNTS's selling the problems, and then they can hunt you down

[slamchess]

[#H34N1]

For goodness sakes! If something is beign used for monetary gain, it is not fair use.

[rcv]

AoPS says that you may not post complete contests. Do not argue about it.

AoPS generally allows you to ask questions about individual problems. Be thankful.

There's a heck of lot of ground in-between and off to the sides. The more you insist on defining the line, the more risk that AoPS (or MATHCOUNTS' attorneys) will set the line in a place you won't like. [Did you read the part about being discreet. Please.]

[jhredsox]

Going even further. You can always ask on the forum like how to find the area of a rectangle when you know the diagonal length and the perimeter. This way you don't even have to post the problem.

-jorian

[#H34N1]

Does anyone have the answers for the target round 2006? I lost my answer key sheet for the target

[perfect628]

nats? pm me ur answers and I'll tell u if they're right.

[kheg_k]

Can someone give me the 2005 or 2006 National Sprints? (or targets?)

[#H34N1]

Isn't that illegal to trade those?

[bpms]

[kstan013]

[#H34N1]

Okay. Okay. Sorry.

[n0vad3m0n]

so National Sprints for any year cannot be passed along? thts random...

[kheg_k]

I thought anuridh said as long as it's not for profit;


http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/posting.php?p=758572&mode=topicreview&postorder=DESC#758572

I'm planning to learn from it, not sell it.

[#H34N1]

Does anyone have the 1986 National Sprint/Target?

[kstan013]

what's in it for us?

[#H34N1]

I'll trade something you don't have...

[1=2]

ok. The meaning of life, 4 trillion dollars, the fastest computer possible, and free cable.

No, really. STOP asking us for national problems. Just buy them from the mathcounts catalog.

Can we trade answers? Nobody has said anything about answers. {I have the ats problems for (insert year here), but no answers for that year's nats.}

[#H34N1]

The MC catalog doesn't have '86

[slamchess]