In giving away your lace magazines to another lacemaker you aren't breaking anything surely? The Lace Guild has a 'swap/shop' section in 'Lace.'
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:23 AM, The Lacebee <[email protected]>wrote: > > .... however if I give my magazine to a fellow lacemaker I break the > spirit of copyright if I would say that giving away your magazines is the only thing you can do that is not breaking the spirit of copyright since the law is so print and paper oriented that this is permitted, whereas other forms of sharing are not. Interestingly, when I was part of the library focus group, we heard about the problems afflicting libraries wanting to loan digital books both because customers preferred them, and because they don't take up as much space. Publishers were comfortable with the print and paper method of keeping track of copies being loaned by libraries, but loathe to provide digital copies of books to libraries. According to the librarian, they had only recently reached an agreement with a publisher by which, for the fee paid to the publisher, the book could be loaned to only one person at a time and would disappear from the borrower's reading device automatically after 30 days. But the most fascinating part of this was that it had been decided that the average library book is read 27 times before it is worn out and discarded. So after 27 loans of the digital book, the library would have to pay another fee to the publisher. The librarians were in a bit of a kerfluffle since they said that it was frequently the case that books were not worn out after 27 borrowings because a lot of people borrowed books and didn't really read them, or read them very gently, and they often pushed books past 27 borrowings. It would seem to me that either method is rather arbitrary. Sometimes a physical book can be worn out after 5 borrowings. Devon - 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/
