If you copy the entire item and give that to someone you break copyright. If you copy an entire item and give away the original you violate copyright. If you give away or sell the original and don't keep a copy everything is fine in regard to copyright.
Copying part of an item is a grey area, covered by the "fair use" clauses of copyright; it has to be a rather small percentage of the entire work to be fair use, but this is how one gets photocopies through Inter-library Loan, and in the same manner one can provide photocopies to others, if it is a small enough percentage of the total work and you aren't making a profit from it. Fair use when properly enforced also limits the number of distinct copy sets that can be generated for an individual/library from a given item before you're supposed to purchase a legitimate copy of the item for your collection; ILL is not supposed to replace proper collection development. This is an area where a lot of universities should have gotten into trouble, in making up class packets of photocopies from selected works that the students then purchase and use as a textbook; that's a violation of fair use. Yours, John Mead, who used to work in the Chicago Public Library's ILL department, some 20+ years ago. On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:23 AM, The Lacebee <[email protected]>wrote: > > I'd love to give my lace magazines to a charity shop but the local ones > don't want them (no market) however if I give my magazine to a fellow > lacemaker I break the spirit of copyright if not the law. > > Morals eh. > > Kind Regards > > Liz Baker > > - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
