Tapes/copyright (semi-OT)

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 1896

In the United States, you can make copies for educational 
and personal use legally. In other words, you can't copy the book 
then sell the copies.


--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Brooks A. Rowlett" <brooksar at i...> 
wrote:
> > 
> >... guilty of the heinous crime of recording 
> > his CD's  to cassette so he can listen to them in his car's 
> > tape player  :)
> 
> Actually that sort of thing was explicitly allowed by the copyright 
law;
> which is one reason that one of the music servers thought they 
could put
> the disks online and allow someone who proves they own the disk to
> listen to it.  And SvA's answer was strictly to the law, IIRC, on
> library tapes. 
>  
> Moreover, there is also a 'fair use' provision in the law, to cover 
a
> researcher making a copy of a paper or article out of a research 
journal
> for example - one personal copy for fair use.  Thus while I suspect 
that
> while the coloring book people would prefer you bought two copies, 
you
> can clearly legally make a single photocopy of a page, to color.  
> 
> But best ask a real copyright attorney, or  at least check some of 
the
> websites that offer copyright law guidance.
> 
> That's also the point of my posting URL's instead of article text - 
that
> clearly avoids an internet copyright problem.
> 
> -Brooks