-----Forwarded Message----- >From: lynrbai...@desupernet.net >Sent: May 29, 2011 6:50 PM >To: Malvary Cole <malva...@sympatico.ca> >Subject: Re: [lace] Floral Bucks Pattern book > > Malvary Cole wrote: >>Sherry - If you own the tape and you want to transfer it to DVD for your >>own personal use and not making copies for others, I don't see how that is a >>contravention of copyright. Isn't it similar to owning a book and making a >>copy of the pattern so that you can use it to make the lace. I expect the >>copyright police will jump all over me, but it seems to me to be the same >>thing. > >For some reason my large email with the US copyright law was not transmitted >to Arachne the last time a serious discussion of copyright was going on. I >couldn't find the British law about copyright, but the U.S. Code copyright law >provides for fair use, which means you can copy what's yours for your own use. > I don't have the email anymore, but very clearly from what our members across >the Pond write, it's not at all the same in Great Britain. So if you're in >the US, feel free to do what you want with your books, tapes, CD's. As far as >I know, US libraries do not pay a copying license fee, which seems to obtain >in Great Britain. A barrister/trial attorney by trade, I can read laws, do >legal research and all that stuff I can find most US laws online, but I've no >idea where to find such things in Britain. This difference in the law in the >two countries is the reason for the discussions which erupt from time to time >on Arachne. We are playing the game with different rules. So if you're in America, you can copy your own stuff, copy from a library book, within reason. In the Mother Country, evidently there are all sorts of hoops to jump through that we don't have. > >Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where I've just come inside from making >lace on the shaded patio, with the scent of antique roses wafting overall. >Life doesn't get much better.
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