From: Dylan Stewart (rxs015500_at_utdallas.edu)
Date: Sun May 18 2003 - 11:52:32 PDT
On 2003-05-18 at 13:15:50, Jeff Abbott wrote:
> Ed: Respectfully, no it doesn't. Printed materials don't have a "fair use"
> doctrine in place; buying a printed version gives you no rights to a
version
> in another media. There is a new boilerplate on most books now (I just got
> the page proofs for my next novel, due out in November), and the legalese
> now includes the following:
Actually, it does. All copyrighted works have fair use rights.
US Code Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 107:
<blockquote>
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a
copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or
phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes
such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple
copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement
of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any
particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a
commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the
copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the
copyrighted work.
</blockquote>
The use would clearly be for nonprofit purposes. It could be argued that he
is trying to educate himself about the city's layout. Although he would be
using the work as a whole, this would clearly have no effect whatsoever on
the potential market for the work.
It doesn't matter what the legalese says, we have rights under US Code to
make copies. EULAs and such can only grant extra rights (like the GPL, for
instance). They can't take them away.
Any copyright lawyer worth his fee could shoot down any accusations which
the company might lay against him.
Now, as for the question at hand, I'm not sure that a Newton Book would be
suitable. As far as I know, they only display data up to the page limits,
so putting a map into one would require all sorts of rearranging. It would
be easiest to use some sort of map viewer or other specialized program
instead of the basic book reader.
Really, I wonder if an entire map could fit into the Newton's memory all at
once. It might be best to put it on some sort of storage card as a
tremendously huge soup (with each page as an entry) which the map reader can
access. That way, you can have a 'file' bigger than the Newton has storage
space. However, I don't know enough about soups to say whether that's a
viable idea or not.
Dylan Stewart AC5ZH
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