Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-22 Thread David P. Dillard
First of all, my compliments to Larry Phillips on a well thought out and well written response. For those wishing to delve deeply into these issues, there are two discussion groups (probably amongst many others) that I recommend for some detailed and excellent discussions in this subject field.

RE: Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-14 Thread Barbara COMBES
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 October 2005 4:28 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussiongroup; The Digital Divide Network discussiongroup Subject: Re: Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights I agree with you on almost everything you say, Claude

Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-14 Thread Larry Phillips
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright? Don't the writers and producers of intellectual and artistic property own their works and have the right to control how they are distributed To

Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-14 Thread Claude Almansi
Sarah, thank you for your answer: I agree that former non-digital piracy does not justify digital piracy. What I had written was just aimed at not demonizing too much the piracy potential of digital tools, but it is true that it must be addressed. Same with plagiarism, btw: people have

[DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-14 Thread Kenan Jarboe
I agree with John that the Google's and Yahoo's digitization of books is not a problem if the purpose is to provide access to specific portions only - the creation of the intellectual showroom (look what happened when the Border brothers encouraged people in their Ann Arbor bookstore to

[DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-13 Thread sarahblackmun
Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright? Don't the writers and producers of intellectual and artistic property own their works and have the right to control how they are distributed? (Don't Google and Yahoo and the

RE: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-13 Thread Sharon V Robinson
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright? Don't the writers and producers

RE: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-13 Thread Rebecca MacKinnon
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright? Don't the writers and producers

Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-13 Thread Claude Almansi
Sarah Blackmun wrote: Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright? It can be unethical and illegal in some cases, but Taran Rampersad, whom you seem to be answering was only speaking using Optical Character Recognition with

Re: RE: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-13 Thread sarahblackmun
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright? Don't

Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-13 Thread John Mitchell
It is neither unethical or illegal to digitize (i.e. copy) books that are protected by copyright, if done right. It has been done for over 100 years in the analog world. Example: Copyright owner authorizes printer to make 50 copies. Printer makes 65, gives 50 back to author, gets paid for making

Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-13 Thread John Mitchell
On 10/13/05, Sharon V Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do believe that writers and artist should control how they work is distributed - . . . . Congress appears to disagree. Back in 1909, when it was codifying what has come to be known as the first sale doctrine, the Judiciary Committee

Re: Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-13 Thread sarahblackmun
/13 Thu PM 03:22:03 EDT To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights Sarah Blackmun wrote: Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright