Re: Just-out comment on *Eldred*

From: Freya Anderson <freya_anderson[_at_]eed.state.ak.us>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 15:24:41 -0800

It wasn't clear, and I'm not positive, but I think that she was referring to the Adobe Library, which appears to have various publisher restrictions on printing and copying.
http://www.textlibrary.com/adobe_library.htm

Freya

At 12:46 AM 9/30/02 -0400, you wrote:
>List members may be interested in the commentary on *Eldred v. Ashcroft*
>(on the SCOTUS agenda for 9 October) just published by BusinessWeek.
>
>"A Case to Define the Digital Age," by Jane Black, is at:
>http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2002/tc20020927_7367.htm
>
>
>Okay. Read it. Digested it. Neato.
>
>But I don't get this part:
>
>The rise of the Internet makes such incursions all the more threatening,
>according to Lessig. That's because, technically speaking, every download is
>a copy, which can be tracked and restricted by the copyright holder. So
>while you can photocopy a chapter of author George Eliot's 1873 novel
>Middlemarch and give it to a friend, that's not true for newer file formats.
>
>For example, if you try to print or copy sections of Middlemarch on an Adobe
>eBook Reader, you'll be informed that Adobe allows users to copy only 10
>sections every 10 days. Readers of Aristotle's Politics, which as far as
>anyone knows was never copyrighted, aren't permitted to copy or print any
>text.
>
>
>
>Huh? Obviously, I can copy and re-copy .pdf files to my heart's content,
>outside Adobe Reader.
>
>or, am I missing something
>

Freya Anderson

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