SV: Re: [sdiy] OTA book on eBay

[karl dalen]

--- Harry Bissell Jr <harrybissell at prodigy.net> skrev:

> What I'd like to see (at least for Music)
> is a modification of copyright law... that says
> something
> like if the copyright holder does not make the
> product available for purchase, then the public would
> get a licence to make a limited number of copies.

Boooooooooooooooo! 

My old mom holds a copyright from her (now defunct) father, 
this book are used as study material as for higher eductaion
at the University of Uppsala in certain specialist biology course.

We reprint this book whenever the course are to be (once a year or so).
And are sold to the students.(extreamly little money are done
from this, its more of a expence really).

This book copyright will be passed over to me as times goes on!
My interest are not the money , more like that the book are used,
and available as university study material in courses thats active
part of the univerity lectures.
 
> Maybe each person could make ~one~ copy.  So I could
> copy one, and give it to you, you could copy and
> give it to one other...etc.

Boooooooooooo!
However i must admit that i have
copied a electronics book once!! 
 
> When someone takes a product that they bought one copy
> of, then reproduces it for profit on E-bay, that is
> just wrong.

? ugh! Booooooooooooo for that!
 
> What should happen is that someone who NEEDS the
> information (perhaps on list) should request it...and
> some other person (perhaps also on list) should send
> them a copy, and enjoy a large steaming mug of STFU
> all around.
 
> Help each other out folks... this is the closest that
> we might get to 'fair use' of those obsolete and
> unobtainable documents.
 
> Another example... want Electronotes ?  Buy them from
> Bernie. I would not dream of photocopying them for
> sale or trade. Maybe if Bernie was dead and his heirs
> did not want to continue distribution. Even then I
> would not SELL them.

Hehe, have you done some SDIY archive search lately? :-)

Reg
KD