Under current international copyright law someone always
owns the copyright. Just who that is seems to vary from
country to country as Bill Robb and I discovered a while
back in a rather long discussion on this list.
The Library is not violating copyright, no more than you are
when you lend a friend a book. Once you buy a copy of a
copyrighted item you own that copy, you can do what ever you
please with that copy except make more copies.
--Tom
aimcompute wrote:
>
> But if the work is not copyrighted, how can it be copyright infringement?
> >From what I understand the work belongs to the corporation not the
> individual(s). In that case one could argue that taking a picture of
> virtually anything is copyright infringement because it is someones
> handiwork...
>
> Just a question I have wondered about... Public Libraries have to be the
> biggest, most blatant violators of the spirit of the copyright laws. I
> appreciate them, but the authors & artists are potentially losing billions
> of dollars because of this sort of "communism".
>
> Tom C.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicholas Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >
> > --- "Peifer, William [OCDUS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Does this sound like it may work? Any other
> > > suggestions?
> >
> > It sounds like something along the lines of copyright
> > infringment, even though there is no artist's name it
> > is still someone's handiwork.
> >
> > Nick
> >
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