[lit-ideas] Re: What's THIS ?!?
- From: Thomas Hart <tehart@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:04:03 -0400
Actually, it's not silly.
An electronic file can be reproduced endlessly with the click of a button. If
you can obtain a work for little or no cost, you're not going to buy it. That's
why there are so many illegal copies of overpriced programs like Autocad in
engineering offices. They buy one copy at $4,000, and then it's passed around
throughout the organization. Autodesk, the manufacturer of Autocad may well
jack the price up to compensate for the pirated copies.
Once the file is lent, it can be copied and archived. You can go to a library,
check out a CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray, and then copy it to your computer. The library
effectively becomes an accomplice in piracy. The same goes for books. BODT
(Books On Dead Trees) can be scanned, turned into PDF files, or text files, and
then passed around endlessly. There are sites where you can download dozens of
books that are not in the public domain, not released for free distribution.
The available titles range from John Grisham and Tom Clancy novels to titles
from O'Reilly, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University press, and
these are all available illegally and free.
Now I personally think that the copyright law needs revision so that works from
the 1930s, 1940s, and maybe even the 1960s and 1970s are freely available, but
the law as it stands says that many works that you can find freely available on
the net are there illegally.
As to the reading aloud, that probably comes under the category of performance.
All of Bach is in the public domain, but when you perform and record an
harpsichord concerto, that performance is copyrightable, and cannot be used in
a public forum without paying a fee. So you can read sonnets to your sweetie in
private, but don't do it at your local tavern. It may also mean that you can't
use any text to speech functions.
"All women are created equal.
Then some become Marines"
Katy Perry video for "Part of me"
Thomas Hart
tehart@xxxxxxx
On Apr 11, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Veronica Caley wrote:
> Lending not allowed
> Reading aloud not allowed
>
> Shows the silliness of too many rules, laws, regulations that are inherently
> unenforceable..
>
> Veronica Caley
> Milford, MI
>
>
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> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 3:19 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] What's THIS ?!?
>
>
>> I don't have, but - until I read the following - had been considering
>> purchasing, an electronic book 'reader'.
>>
>> In searching the Internet for William Gaddis' AGAPE, AGAPE, I noticed the
>> following 'additional details' appended to the listing for the Adobe eBooks
>> edition:
>>
>> Adobe PDF eBook Rights
>> Copying not allowed
>> Printing not allowed
>> Lending not allowed
>> Reading aloud not allowed
>>
>> The first two or three seem straightforward enough (the lending restriction
>> seems a bit severe; it's hard to imagine not lending out a book).
>>
>> BUT can it possibly be true that, should I purchase an eBook copy of this
>> (or any other book with similar 'rights' attached), I would be agreeing (in
>> a legally binding way) that I would not read the book aloud to a friend /
>> loved one / family member?
>>
>> Do people actually, by buying such eBooks, agree to such a restriction in
>> (what to me is an essential component in) the life of a piece of literature?
>>
>> Chris Bruce,
>> more thankful than ever for his
>> 'outsider borrowing privileges'
>> at the local university library, in
>> Kiel, Germany
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