On re-reading, there are a couple of unclear referents or referent errors -- corrected below...
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > >> > Depends on what it's used for. If you only use them for yourself, that's > fair use, as I understand it. If you sell them, then it's just like you > showing movies in a bar without paying a studio or distributor for the > privilege. Or playing CDs, for that matter. (Which is why so many bars have > gone over to Satellite or Cable Radio and CD Jukeboxes: Because the vendor > takes care of the fees they'd otherwise have to pay to distributors.) Or > making photocopy versions of The Stand and selling them on the street > corner. I fail to see how automated transformation for personal use differs > in any way from any of those scenarios. > Last sentence ("I fail to see how automated transformation for personal use differs in any way from any of those scenarios") should have been struck -- it was an artifact from an earlier version of the paragraph. > .... > > Frankly, if it turns out that copyright law supports requiring them to pay > for that, I would think it should be changed. > "that" referred to non-interpretive, automated transformation, not to creative interpretation. Poor editing, again. > > -- eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
