Gary Hedlin wrote:
> WRONG- You've got a lot of work to do to defend yourself.
If you must...
Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained
in Title 17 of the United States Code - http://www.copyright.gov/title17/
US Copyright Office - http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
From http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html -
"Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United
States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of "original works of
authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and
certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both
published and unpublished works. Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act
generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to
authorize others to do the following:
To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;
To prepare derivative works based upon the work;
To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale
or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical,
dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and
other audiovisual works;
To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary,
musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial,
graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a
motion picture or other audiovisual work; and
In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means
of a digital audio transmission."
IOW, copyright law says that DC can dictate anything and everything
regarding how the work is distributed. If DC says you can't do
something with the book, then doing it without DC's authorization is a
violation of copyright. How much clearer does one have to make it?
IMO, *you* are the one who needs to "defend yourself" - how are you NOT
in violation of copyright law if you do what you've described earlier today?
-- -andy andylevy@yahoo.com Maintainer, DML FAQ - http://www.dakota-truck.net/faq/ http://home.twcny.rr.com/andylevy/dakota/ '99 CC 4x4 318 auto
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