Book People Archive

Re: Re: What's Not in Gutenberg


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Derek Pomery <dpomery@[redacted]> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Michael S. Hart wrote:
> 
> >Sorry, the US legal system does not recognize scans for copyright research,
> >even though I am not sure they can always TELL a scan from a fax or xerox.
> >            
> >Michael      
> 
> I find that particularly amusing since our fax machine is also a printer.
> Our fax machine can't even tell if the person at the other end is sending
> the document from a fax machine, or from a scanner hooked up to a computer
> with a modem.
> The logic of law will always escape me, I fear...

Or, the logic of a lawyer <grin>.

I doubt that it is the law that requires a fax or xerox.  I think
that it is one of these obscure rules of courts that requires fax
or xerox.  If this is correct, then, it is the logic of a judge
<grin>.

I doubt that any fax or xerox will be upheld in a U.S. court because
if Project Gutenberg is ever sued for a copyright infringement,
a plaintiff will argue that there is no difference between a
scan and a fax or xerox and therefore all of them cannot be trusted.

But then, I am not a lawyer.
             
Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo@[redacted]>