[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You know, it's a matter of time before digital cells with cameras (or just > plain cameras) are used to copy books out of libraries. Would that be a bad > thing? :-)
No, and most copyright law was not meant to prevent the "single copy". Originally it was meant to stop publisher "B" from buying one copy of a book from publisher "A" (or the author) and just printing copies to their heart's content and selling them without paying royalties. It seems to me it was only when the photocopying machine came into being that the issue of copyright got extended to single copies, then single pages. md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
