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"Simon Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:-
>Books are different...
>
>With a book, you are buying the media, and a license to read the material on
>it. That is a single-user license (unless people read over your shoulder)
>with certain caveats (fair-use photo-copying; which is no greater than 15%
>of the material, IIRC).
Ok, fair enough...
>Now, if you had scanned in all the pages of the book -- as long as you kept
>it for yourself and didn't distribute it -- you could legally print your own
>copy and replace your damaged one with that one (although you'd have to keep
>the damaged one if you were being incredibly strict about it).
Er, now, didn't you just contradict yourself...?!
I thought we'd said in the "single user license" scenario that you
couldn't make copies.
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James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"You're missing the point! The individual doesn't matter. It
was a team effort, and I was the one who came up with the whole
team idea...me!" - Homer Simpson, The Simpsons.
Please insert meaningless promise about The Official James R Curry
web page here...
