@jonnythan Said You're not really "allowed" to photocopy reading material.
Here's how it works:
Any reproduction (yes,
any reproduction) of copyrighted work without the express permission of the copyright holder is illegal by the terms of copyright law.
However, there are some exceptions made. You're allowed to reproduce small sections of a work for educational purposes, parody, etc.
But you cannot (in general) reproduce
an entire work, or significant chunks of it, whether it's a whole magazine article, an entire book, or whatever, for any reason at all without permission. So, strictly speaking, copying that 6-page article about the Higgs Boson out of the Journal of Physics at the local library is indeed a copyright violation.
But people do it anyway and no one calls them criminals. I feel like a kid saying to her parents, "but EVERYone is doing it!"
If you rip music, it's theft. If you photocopy an article, no one minds.
Hell, the whole library is robbing author's of book sales.
Meh. I dunno.
Apr 14, 2008 @ 17:40:00
) So your call - call it conscience. I know many guys who buy cd's, rip them to mp3, then sell them on ebay. Seems a lot of effort to me.
