Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:18:22 +0100, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> For example you borrow from the library a book which comes with a CD >>>>> containing GPL'd software. Under the terms of the GPL are you not >>>>> entitled to make a copy of that software before returning the book >>>>> and CD to the library? You do not need the library's (owner of the >>>>> physical copy you copied) permission to do so. >>>> >>>> Not? You mean, I can just walk into a library and start scanning with >>>> a hand scanner or a digital camera from media that happen to contain >>>> public domain material, without actually borrowing the stuff out? >>> >>> No I am not suggesting that at all. What I am suggesting is that I >>> can borrow a book from the library and once it is in my possession I >>> can do with it anything allowed by copyright law. >> >> Because a library is a special agency, with special rules fixed in >> special laws. > > I don't think it is necessary to argue that the library is special. > The library owns books and allows access to them as they choose. > There are only a few provisions of copyright law that are triggered > by owning a copy and the ones of interest here don't apply to books. > No license or permission of any kind is allowed to exercise fair use > just as no license is required to read a book. Fair use is copying > done without permission.
I don't think that lending out books for money to people you don't know with the intent to let them read and copy them is still covered by the normal "fair use". -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
