Re: Terminology issues II

Samuel Murray wrote:
> An electronic copy example might be to scan in a book so that you can
> more easily do Find-searches on the text, or make annotations to it in
> Notepad, but in the end, the electronic version of the book is
> destroyed and only the hardcopy remains.
>
> I guess what I'm getting at is whether it would be okay for me to make
> a copy of something which is simply an inbetween step in a process of
> which the end-result is not infringement of copyright.
This is the argument that Google is making in regards to their indexing of books from libraries, to create their Google Book Search product. A good discussion of this took place at the New York Public Library (and another similar event will be happening soon in Los Angeles. You can listen to the NYPL event at:

   http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=1661

Note that there is one (maybe two?) lawsuit against Google for undertaking this project, on the basis that they are making copies of the works and that those copies remain in their system as part of the search and display function even though only small amounts of text are ever displayed at any time. I don't know if the same concern would exist if the digital copies were destroyed, as you mention in your case.

   (info on AAUP lawsuit at:
http://www.aaupnet.org/aboutup/issues/gprint.html)

kc

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