Copyrights for printed matter have been around a lot longer than the
stuff covered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you look
inside the front of a book, it's going to say that no copy of any
kind can be made without express permission from the publisher or
rights-holder for ANY reason other than editorial review (where
you're including a passage in an article about the book). There is no
provision in the publishing world, as there is in the music world,
for you to make a digital copy for yourself if you have already paid
the creator for a non-digital copy.
Legal? No. Ethical? Probably, if you don't try to distribute it.
Jim
On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:23 PM, maynard@jmg.com wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
>
>>> You /do/ know that any electronic version of Tolkien's work is by
>>> default an illegal version, right?
>>
>> Yeah, but I think if Martin owned a print copy of the Tolkien books
>> in question, as well, that might be considered "Fair Use," (like
>> ripping your CD to your iPod, or a screenshot of a DVD to show a
>> picture of a character).
>>
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