Computer Hardware Documentation Bidders Mailing List?

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Wed Aug 16 14:28:20 2000

Sellam wrote:
> Sure, but I think there's another problem, which is that this practice is
> most likely illegal :)

If someone would set up a library, there are lots of exemptions in
copyright law for those. It would probably have to be set up as a
non-profit corporation; otherwise it might be possible for a copyright
holder that wants to stir up trouble to claim that it's not a "real"
library.

Copyright law allows a library to make a (single) photocopy of a document to
lend out in place of a rare document. I think a case could be made that
a scanned image is equivalent. You'd just have to require that the
borrower return the scanned image when they're done with it. Perhaps a
scheme like netlibrary uses would work.
Received on Wed Aug 16 2000 - 14:28:20 BST