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'

Keep in mind that by posting material on the Internet, you are facilitating copying by others, since their computers of necessity makes copies of the items that are posted in order to display them on the users' screens. So at the very least, you potentially have contributory infringement (which is an argument not unlike the one in the Napster case).  

I think the point was made earlier that copyright is (at present, at least), an "opt-in" type of law rather than an "opt-out" law. Copyright owners have no obligation to opt out of an infringer's planned copying of their works. For this reason, it's also arguable that Google's whole caching system is a system of copyright infringement.  

kwg

From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property on behalf of Karen Coyle
Sent: Thu 9/29/2005 6:30 PM
To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: [CNI-(C)] Re: [CNI-(C)] 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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