Re: copyright changes

From: Laura N. Gasaway <unclng[_at_]email.unc.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:14:08 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Robert Cumbow <rcumbow[_at_]grahamdunn.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999, Nick Zales <zales[_at_]execpc.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Rich Stim <rwstim[_at_]aol.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Under fair use guidelines, libraries and nonprofit archives must
> > > prominently display the notice indicated below in a place where
> > > photocopies are made or ordered.
> >
> > Do these notices serve any real purpose? Of course not. People
> > copy whatever they want regardless of these notices. So why go through
> > the trouble? To protect rights? No rights are being protected, lay
> > people do what they want. In fact, people laugh at and mock these
> > notices. I submit they serve no real purpose and should be done
> > away with.
>
> The notices do serve one purpose: In the event of a lawsuit for
> infringement, they serve as evidence that the infringer was put on
> notice, thereby defeating the defense of innocent infringement, and
> quite possibly supporting a case for multiple damages on the grounds
> of willful infringement. People who ignore the notices might give
> that a second thought.

     This is not under fair use guidelines but the statute itself. See section 108(d).

Lolly

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