Re: Re: Scanning books into electronic format

Conversion from printed form to an electronic form is likely also a derivative work (not merely just a copy or reproduction) and the right to create derivative works is also an exclusive right of the copyright owner.  

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> From: "Joseph Pietro Riolo" <josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
> Date: 2006/09/05 Tue AM 11:45:30 EDT
> To: "CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property"
> <CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org>
> Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: [CNI-(C)] Scanning books into electronic format
>
> On 8/30/06, Samuel Murray <leuce[_at_]absamail.co.za> wrote:
> >
> > What would you say about the legality of scanning a book into electronic
> > format so that you can more easily search it? ...
>
> Speaking only from my perspective in my own country (U.S.)...
>
> Based on your description, it seems obvious that it is a copyright
> infringement. Not all copies are necessarily an act of infringement
> but I don't see how what you are doing can fall under any
> non-infringing uses.
>
> It really does not matter that you only have one copy at all the
> time. There are some people who said that as long as you
> have one copy, it does not matter if it is in paper form or digital
> form. My opinion is that they are very mistaken. Copyright
> concerns both copy as a noun and copy as a verb.
>
> When you transfer a copy (as a noun) from paper form to
> digital form, you are doing the copying (as a verb) or as
> what the copyright law calls, reproduction.
>
> However, the reality is far different from what I say above.
> Far too many people simply disregard the law and proceed
> reproducing works in paper form to digital form. You may
> be tempted to disregard the law but it is best to think about
> the long-term future. What if one of employees in your office
> becomes your enemy or becomes disgruntled with your
> company? He or she would report your copyright infringement
> to the authors of the books that you scan to your PC.
>
> If there is a digital version available for the book, buy it.
> Else, you are stuck with the book in the paper form until
> its copyright expires.
>
>
> Joseph Pietro Riolo
> <josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
>
> Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923
> in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright
> owners' prisons: 4,501
>
> Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this
> post in the public domain.
>
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