> I have been following this thread and wonder about the 300 or so books > that belong to Norfolk Lacemakers where we all borrow them and I may > honestly say I think everyone of us have copied patterns out of them to > work else where would be the point of us buying them for the use of our > members? Are we infringing copyright in doing so? > > Sue M Harvey > Norfolk UK
The use made of your library by your members is covered, I suspect, by the same types of regulations that cover university libraries and public libraries: fair use and non-commercial purposes. There is no commercial purpose to your library. If your guild is a corporate person (and I am using the metaphor of the family as a corporate person) then the guild members act as family members using books out of a joint collection. Its only my opinion, but based on my experience with our guild lending library and the research collection I manage in the university department where I work, any copyright infringement would be a action committed by an individual mass copying for purposes of selling. Lucie DuFresne Ottawa Guild of Lacemakers, Canada University of Ottawa, Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
