Posted on 10/16/2015 2:33:58 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
These Court cases always fascinate me. At the link above, there is another link to download the oral arguments. I have not yet read it.
However, I have yet to read a decision of the challenge to "copyright infringement" for works that were sold at some time in the past, may become relevant years later, and neither the copyright holder nor the publisher has any interest in reprinting the work. This results in high interest works, the few copies of which appear for sale, selling for outrageous amounts.
This benefits neither the general public, the author or the publisher.
I assume I can copy and keep a handwritten copy from an original for personal use.
I can also scan an existing copy and keep the copy for personal use.
If I am wrong, please let me know if (and where) these questions can be answered.
Authors Guild v. Google Inc, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 13-4829
I was unable to make a link from that.
Several sources of PDFs of the court decision are listed in the Google results.
Not since the horse died.
You bring up a very interesting point pertaining to out-of-print material.
Thinking about tax free for the enterprise, not for donors like a church or charity. If the enterprise earns nothing, if it spends all its gross income, then what is the tax calculated upon?
I’ve heard of proposals of the Library of Congress acting as middleman for “compulsory licensing” royalties for printed works (as it does now for recorded music), at least for those works where the copyright owner has not registered a wish for the work to be handled differently. It seems kind of silly to talk about the progress of arts that you can’t even get legal copies of.
True that, I have 6-7 search engines depending on what I am up to...
Not, though that weighs in favor in disputed cases.
In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
And you can make your own custom search, as i did .
Awesome, thanks!
Well, true. That would hold for any enterprise, although I don’t know that it wouldn’t attract the attention of the IRS if one consistently managed to never turn a profit.
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