--- Barney Hamish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does the market decide that the _thought_ creation belongs to the
creator as you state?
The publisher includes a contract with the book that states that the seller
agrees not to copy the book, and not to transfer it to anyone unless the
next owner
:
So do public/university libraries fundamentally violate intellectual
property rights?
As you know, copyrights confer only limited rights to the author.
Owners of books may rent out the books.
Copyright only outlaws copying, not use or lending.
Is copying alone an
act of theft, or only when
Well, as Robert Book pointed out, there is a conflict between laws. The law
says fair use, whatever that means exactly, but now the DMCA says not even
that. Though the DMCA really only permits the prevention of fair use, I
think. But anyway, it's a real stretch to call the current situation a
