JC Dill <inet-list@vo.cnchost.com> wrote:
> One could argue that subscribing and mirroring a mailing list on the
> Internet is akin to the paper book parallel of buying a single copy of a
> book then putting it in a lending library. In both cases, the "owner"
> provided the item to subsequently be shared (via the mailing list
> subscription or the book sale). Both purposes serve to make the
> information available to a wider group of people. Lending libraries are
> permitted by copyright law, even though many book publishers were against
> the idea when libraries first became popular. Why should mailing list
> mirrors and archives be treated differently?
Mailing list mirrors and public archives involve creating additional
copies of copyrighted materials; that is not the case with a lending
library.
> I can't find anything specific in Title 17 regarding the
> establishment of lending libraries and how they were permitted under
> copyright law. :-(
Section 109 is specifically about that.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/109.html
Greetings, Norbert.
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