On 1/11/00, Michael Sowinski <msowinski[_at_]dpra.com> wrote:
>
> I would really appreciate a word of advice. Several newsletters that
> my company subscribes to have begun to offer their periodicals via
> electronic delivery services, such as PDF. If my company, which
> includes 8 offices nationwide and one in Canada, stores those PDF
> files on our company Intranet site where they could be accessed by
> all of our offices, would we be infringing?
Depends on the terms of the subscription, but in the absence of terms to the contrary, I would think yes. If you took your current hard copy magazine, scanned it, and made it available on your Intranet, wouldn't you be infringing? I can't see much of a difference between that and the .pdf hypo (I realize there are technical differences).
You could also ask the magazines. Perhaps they would consent, or perhaps they would be willing to give you a site license. :-)
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