Re: 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'

Yes, but we're talking about text here, so unless a digital copy of a book is being considered a visual work.... hmmm, that could make things interesting.

kc

Vance R. Koven wrote:

> 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
> <mailto:kcoyle[_at_]kcoyle.net>> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Vance R. Koven
> Boston, MA USA
> vrkoven[_at_]world.std.com <mailto:vrkoven[_at_]world.std.com>

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