RE: [Corpora-List] Legal aspects of corpora compiling

From: Amsler, Robert (Robert.Amsler@hq.doe.gov)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 15:12:35 MET DST

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    Adam's fine posting on copyright needs only one short addendum.

    It isn't ONLY cases in which someone is going to profit from the use of
    material
    that copyright issues can arise. You might think that if there is no profit
    to be made you're in the clear--this isn't the case. Copyright also covers
    situations in which the copyright holder suffers a loss of profit because
    your
    use of their material diminishes their ability to sell it at full price.

    This situation came up well before Napster, when universities were called to
    task for
    providing faculty with photocopies of articles out of journals to which
    their libraries subscribed,
    which the publishers felt was diminishing the personal subscriptions to
    those journals they could sell to faculty directly. There is now a
    considerable difference
    between "institutional" subscription rates and "personal" subscription rates
    to
    compensate copyright holders for losses due to library readership.



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