Yeats Threat/writer&editor view
- From: JEANNEK@[redacted]
- Subject: Yeats Threat/writer&editor view
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:08:52 -0400 (EDT)
41195 14-AUG 13:55 General Information
RE: FYI re Yeats Threat (Re: Msg 41165)
From: PARKERWADE To: JEANNEK (NR)
Here's two more aspects on the subject that illustrate the uncontrollable
realities relative to simple copyright inforcement, much less the astronomical
impossibilities posed by the internet:
1) Permissions to reprint previously copyrighted material (example: song
lyrics reprinted in a novel) often limit or restrict the application of the
permission to a certain geographical area. Say North America, as opposed to
world wide. Can a publisher control distribution to conform to the intended
terms of the permission? Of course not. Books purchased in San Francisco,
Miami or New York end up on airplanes going to Austrailia or elsewhere every
day.
2) Usage of a unit of copyrighted material (a book) is granted to the
purchaser upon purchase of that unit of copyrighted material. Use of the
material is theoritically intended to be exclusive and limited to the
purchaser of the book, yet millions of books are read by the original
purchaser and then read by many others time and time again. Are we all
copyright infringers? An entire industry exists to buy and resell used copies
of copyrighted material with no residual benifit paid the the copyright
holder. There is no way to control hardcopy use, much less the ethereal
transmissions over the internet.
Mark-