On 7/08/2012 4:20 AM, Gerhard Adam wrote:
This is precisely why we can have material that is copyrighted, and yet is available for free to the public. No one else can claim credit for the work, and no one else can turn it into work for profit, but there's certainly no law against copying it and redistributing it otherwise. Do you really think that copying an IBM redbook and e-mailing to a colleague is a copyright violation?
Copyright is about the "right to copy" so it IS a law against copying and redistributing the work, without permission.
Copying an IBM redbook and emailing it to a colleague may well be an infringement of copyright, unless IBM gives permission somewhere. IBM might be unlikely to enforce it, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
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