JC Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One could argue that subscribing and mirroring a mailing list on the > Internet is akin to the paper book parallel of buying a single copy of a > book then putting it in a lending library. In both cases, the "owner" > provided the item to subsequently be shared (via the mailing list > subscription or the book sale). Both purposes serve to make the > information available to a wider group of people. Lending libraries are > permitted by copyright law, even though many book publishers were against > the idea when libraries first became popular. Why should mailing list > mirrors and archives be treated differently?
Mailing list mirrors and public archives involve creating additional copies of copyrighted materials; that is not the case with a lending library. > I can't find anything specific in Title 17 regarding the > establishment of lending libraries and how they were permitted under > copyright law. :-( Section 109 is specifically about that. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/109.html Greetings, Norbert. -- Founder & Steering Committee member of http://gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/ Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland) Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://norbert.ch List hosting with GNU Mailman on your own domain name http://cisto.com
