Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Copyright Violations - not just sale Message-ID: <250@opus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 21:29:06 EST Article-I.D.: opus.250 Posted: Mon Mar 19 21:29:06 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 02:23:06 EST References: <6284@decwrl.UUCP> <6934@unc.UUCP> <987@ihuxr.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 14 <> > A Copywrite(sic) violation occurs whether the item is sold or not. It is a > violation, for one explicit instance, for a choir to buy one copy of a > piece of music and photocopy it for the rest of the choir members... Yes. If you want to understand the intent of the law, consider that you can adversely affect the copyright owner in either of two ways - you can unjustly profit from his work (that's the selling-it part) or deny him profit from his work (that's the copying and distributing part, regardless of whether you sell it). You may not understand all the in's and out's of the law, but you can usually apply the test of whether the copyright holder is somehow losing money he might have made. -- {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd