In UK "fair dealing" means an individual is allowed to make a copy of someone else's work for non-commercial, private study.
From: http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p27_work_of_others Research and private study Copying parts of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or of a typographical arrangement of a published edition for the purpose of research or private study is allowed under the following conditions: • The copy is made for the purposes of research or private study. • The copy is made for non-commercial purposes. • The source of the material is acknowledged. • The person making the copy does not make copies of the material available for a number of people. It's not explicitly stated but fair usage is generally taken as 5% or one chapter. See: http://www.soas.ac.uk/infocomp/copyright/library/photocopying/#1Photocopyingunderfairdealingforprivatestudyorresearch Most countries have similar fair dealing/fair usage laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing As Lyn says, making a single copy of a pattern in a book, for your own personal use does *not* infringe copyright and it doesn't matter whether that book belongs to the individual or has been (legally) borrowed from a library. Brenda On 30 May 2010, at 23:10, lynrbai...@desupernet.net wrote: > So if nothing else, if a library, which is not defined in the act, and > therefore is given its normal definition, which is public, private, anything, > does not know that its book can be purchased for a reasonable fee, copying of > the work for private study, scholarship, or research is permitted. > > I am also aware of licensing agreements so that copyrighted material can be > used without buying a copy if you pay the licensing fee. But that would be > for items where the copy is available at a reasonable fee. > > Faced with the above, I would suggest that most of what lacemakers do is for > private study, scholarship or research, as most of us are studying the making > of lace. How many members of arachne are in the business of making lace for > sale anyway? Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.me.uk - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
