As I said in a previous posting, Kinko's got into MAJOR copyright-
violation trouble ten or so years ago and since then their policy has
been Extreme Vigilance, to the point of absurdity. If you have
something other than your own typescript or your own drawings to
copy, go somewhere else.
--Ruth Anne Baumgartner
scholar gypsy and amateur costumer
On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Mary + Doug Piero Carey wrote:
Sylrog asked:
<I'm a bit confused. Are you asking Kinkos to make copies for you
or <are they walking around policing people to see what they are
making <copies of by themselves?
Yes, I have seen Kinkos staff snooping around. More often, I've
seen a customer ask for help with a machine, and the staffer asks
just what they want to do. (This is an entirely proper question,
as you often can't tell what settings to use if you don't know what
the desired result is.) So the customer shows the staffer what they
want to copy, and then the staffer decrees that the customer would
be violating copyright and shoos the customer out the door. The
problem is that Kinkos' interpretation of Fair Use has almost
always been wrong, when I've been observing.
As for my own experiences, the color copy problem happened back in
the days when they didn't have color copiers for public use, you
had to have them do it. The problem with my b&w copies for
insurance documentation was that the size of the originals required
the use of the extra-large platen machine. This, again, was not
for general public use. Believe me, knowing Kinkos' ignorance, I
would NEVER have asked them to make any copy I could do myself!
It may just be that management in my region has a bug up its butt,
and this policy isn't nationwide.
Mary Piero Carey
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