Tapes/copyright (semi-OT)

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 1901

Thank you for clearing that up Heidi as people are unaware of the 
legalities in making copies of copywritten material for educational 
and personal usage.

:-)

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Tandy, Heidi" 
<heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> wrote:
> 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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