Check the NOAA chart--I doubt there's a copyright symbol on it. Items printed by the US gov't aren't copyright, because we (meaning US citizens, I guess) would be the copyright owners. Now that I've brought it up, absence of a copyright symbol does not mean it isn't copyright. It is still someone's intellectual property. Not putting the symbol on the document and filing the paperwork with the copyright and patent office simply limits the amount of damages the owner can collect if they do succesfully prove copyright infringement. Fair use has both broad and narrow interpretations. The only people who can truly make a fair use ruling are judges/courts (where does that leave the rest of us???) The current interpretation Kinko's has to follow, because of a court order, is rather narrow, but allows the standard "educational use" stuff. Maps and artwork not part of a publication (book) don't fall under this fair use clause. Check the web site (http://kinkos.com) and see if they have the copyright page up. Their stuff explains it as they have to follow it, and as I understand it. Wynne Americus, GA USA At 09:42 PM 5/11/98 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote: >Wynne Eden wrote: >> >> Kinko's will have a color copier that will copy anything up to 11x17. The >> problems are the copyright on the maps/guidebooks and the paper you're >> asking them to use. As for copyright, check with the person at the >> counter; copyright compliance is their job. If they give you a permission >> form to sign, read it carefully, and if you don't have permission, don't >> get the copies. Be honest, don't lie, even though it'll get your copies made. > >This comes up a lot at work. The "fair use" concept seems to allow an >individual to make a single copy of a copyrighted book page (map, chart, >etc.) *which he/she owns,* for his/her OWN USE (not for resale or the >use of others -- no multiples). > >Seems to me this would allow me to take my NOAA chart, which I paid $16 >- $17 for, and make a single copy of it for laminating. When that copy >wears out, then I'd destroy it and make another one. I would not make >multiples for friends or sell the dang things. > >Whatcha say, Wynne? > >-- >Dave Kruger >Astoria, OR > > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue May 12 1998 - 17:29:46 PDT
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