Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia From: Philip@walkden.demon.co.uk (Philip Howells) Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!walkden.demon.co.uk!Philip Subject: Re: CDROM copyright? References: <1994May31.132912@terminus.saic.com> Organization: Myorganisation Reply-To: Philip@walkden.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.27 Lines: 30 Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 06:45:54 +0000 Message-ID: <770539554snz@walkden.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article milor001@maroon.tc.umn.edu "R A Milowski" writes: > Interesting. I have gotten many different replies about this. Basically, > there are two groups: (1) Its illegal, (2) Its legal if you make sure no > one can copy it! > > Well, my view is this: > > 1. If you can have copyrighted volumes in a library for *public* viewing, > then you can have CDROM archive on the internet for *public* viewing. > > 2. "Public viewing" is just like viewing materials in the library: copying > is illegal without consent of the author(s). > You wisely say this is your view, but surely you miss the point; the copyrighted volumes have been purchased by the library from the copyright holder. Your suggestion that a CD-ROM archive is the same is only true if the CD-ROM is posted by the copyright holder. If you're not that person/body, you infringe their rights by copying the documents on to the Net. Perhaps you meant to infer this caveat; if you did my apologies. We then agree; copying copyright material is illegal. If everyone starts from that premise, any exceptions will be a bonus and we'll keep copyright attorney's looking for work less successfully! :) -- Philip Howells Manchester UK CompuServe 100042,1434