In a message dated 1/15/2009 9:08:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, geniice@gmail.com writes:
Ah no. I want Americans to exercise the legal ability they have to use certain material in certain ways. If that cases companies issues then under the principles of capitalism that isn't my problem unless I own shares in them.
That's not very nice.
1)Copyright law isn't nice 2)Compared to most of the other bits the relevant area isn't very nasty.>> ---------------------------
No one is stopping any American, from going to the repository where the originals items are stored and viewing them. You know this, I don't know why you keep pushing on that button, when it's clear that it's a non starter.
The companies are not trying to prevent people from viewing PD items. They are trying to prevent the viewing of their own copies of those items. Not the items. The copies.
You want readers of this thread to think that the only issue here is copyright law, but it's not. Never was. That's just a handy crutch for people who are intent on theft to justify their actions.
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2009/1/16 WJhonson@aol.com:
No one is stopping any American, from going to the repository where the originals items are stored and viewing them. You know this, I don't know why you keep pushing on that button, when it's clear that it's a non starter.
View!= scanning. Heh ever tried to have a conversation with a government depositry about scanning their stuff?
The companies are not trying to prevent people from viewing PD items. They are trying to prevent the viewing of their own copies of those items. Not the items. The copies.
They are free to do that. Just can't use copyright as a tool.