Copyrights
- From: Brenda Frazier <brenda@[redacted]>
- Subject: Copyrights
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:05:43 -0600
I work as a Computer Graphic Artist for a Math Department at a major
university. One of my responsibilities is to use an OCR program to
scan letters announcing grants, etc. With the latest version of the
program I don't have to do much of anything. In other words it is
possible to scan books quickly.
Also, we have a lot of international visitors who teach and are given
free use of the department's copier. They are only allowed a set
amount of copying for the semester that they are teaching for us. The
department enforces this because some people have copied enormous
amounts (like in the 5 digits). We suspected that they were copying
books and/or journals to ship back home or colleagues.
As a writer I dream of a world where I am totally subsidized by the
government to work on my creative projects. Only it becomes a
nightmare and there is no copyright laws.
Brenda
--
If the pen is mightier than the sword and breath gives life to the
word think what we might do as long as we maintain our right to speak
out.