Gerhard:
I know this is not current and it may be applicable to this.
30 or so years ago IBM brought out a new COBOL compiler and of course
along with it came a manual for it.
Everyone wanted a copy and my management didn't want to buy 200+ copies.
We had to get special permission from IBM to send it to the print
shop along with a letter from IBM OK'ing the copy.
Ed
On Aug 6, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Gerhard Adam wrote:
Lending libraries don't violate copyright. They do not "copy" the
materal.
They only "lend" it to somebody. Like you buying a book, reading
it, then
giving it to > a friend to read on the assumption that they will
return it.
Or, like a 2nd hand book store, you can sell your purchansed copy to
another. In none of these cases > do you copy the material.
You're trying to look at too specific a situation and being too
broad in
your definition of copyright. Copyright is intended ultimately to
simply
give credit to the creator of the work and to give them authority
over how
that work is handled. Therefore if the owner wishes to sell it,
then they
control that aspect of it, as well as how someone can redistribute
their
work.
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?
Adam
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