No, actually, since my livelihood depends on copyright law I firmly
believe in it, and I've worked in various ways to defend copyright
protection completely outside e-groups or the reenactor community.
Your calling me a "troll" does not render invalid statements like, a
book is copyrighted in the country where the copyright is registered,
that is the copyright law that applies, and other countries' laws are
not identical to those of the US. Sorry, Donna, those are facts.
However, I've been in numerous discussions about this on h-costume where
people gyrate all over the place and have five million excuses about
wanting a publication and not being able to afford it, it's too much
trouble to ask permission, their personal violations do no harm, and on,
and on, and on, and on, and on. I don't have time to yet again haul out
all my books on copyright and explain what US law (which does not seem
to apply in this case) says about fair use only to yet again have
everyone distort what the law says fair use is, and what educational use
is, to justify whatever uses they want to make of works without asking
permission.
Hardly trolling. I do have two books of my own to get to the printer.
So as I said, I just cut to the chase and lay the permissions issues
before the rightful owners.
Fran
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