Re: Re: Authors Guild's Paul Aiken Opposes 'Turning Copyright Law Upside Down' -- Except When the Guild Is Helping Publishers Impose a 'License By Default'

Well, yes and no. Public display (of a visual work) is one of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner. You can show your copy to an intimate group of friends, I guess, but not to the whole world.

Vance

On 9/28/05, Karen Coyle <kcoyle[_at_]kcoyle.net> wrote:
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> I thought that copyright had to do with copying, not with letting people
> see those copies. The fact is that Google has made and is retaining a
> copy. If I take a book to Kinko's and copy the whole thing, I don't
> believe that a copyright infringement determination depends on whether I
> am showing my copy to others.
>

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Vance R. Koven
Boston, MA USA
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