Re: Question on Copyright

On 09/09/2021 15:31, Bruce Bailey wrote:
> Wayne, I am not quite tracking how fair use and copyright comes into play.  I think is because the professor was only sharing parts and not the whole book? 

I suspect that the original PDF may not actually qualify as fair use. 
However I think the basis for the question is that they don't want to 
pay for an accessible copy from which an equivalent "fair use" extract 
can be taken, and they don't want to pay to have someone re-key the PDF 
extract.

Even to the extent that fair use is valid, someone has to buy or pay 
public lending right fees, for the original from which the copies were 
made.  (In the case of lending, or machine readable copies, there may he 
contract restrictions, as well as copyright ones.)

Received on Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:00:56 UTC