[HPforGrownups] Re:Tapes/copyright (semi-OT)

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 1899

A lot of people have made interesting comments on copyright and Brooks &
Steve have provided a lot of good information about fair use - so here's my
I Am A Copyright Lawyer comment on the issues:
1. Yes, you can make a very limited number of copies for educational
purposes, but you can't make copies for everyone in your office or class
even if you think everyone will "learn something" from it. The rules on fair
use are very situation-specific and they're very easy to cross. 
2. You can make one copy of any computer program for archival purposes (in
other words, if your computer crashes, you've got a copy to load onto your
system without rebuying it)
3. You can make a copy of a cd or tape or record for your OWN use, but
cannot give that copy to someone else. I once read an article where a
commentator argued that you can't even play that copy if someone elss is in
the car but I think that's stretching it.
4. If someone gives you a license to make copies, you can make as many
copies as the license allows. And if a website allows you to put in an email
address to send a copy of the article to that address, and they don't say
that you cannot put in an address which goes to a mailing list, then there's
nothing wrong with sending an entire article to a whole mailing list that
way. And if someone says on the bottom of their email, "Feel free to send
this to anyone", then you can send it to anyone (but they still own the
copyright in it and you can't sell it & keep the profits)

> -------_->
> 
> 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


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