tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post5127408162995395013..comments2024-03-22T08:01:16.236-04:00Comments on Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: Actually, the AP likes fair use after allUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-31079518729476022952009-11-23T10:41:19.155-05:002009-11-23T10:41:19.155-05:00@Anonymous
If more than one person used the SAME ...@Anonymous<br /><br />If more than one person used the SAME scanned page at one time from different terminals, then I would question the fair use. If the 11 reporters each had a different page open, then there is little difference between that and tearing up a book and passing out the different chapters. No piracy necessary.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13496197049149009868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-75917151400502176322009-11-22T21:28:33.466-05:002009-11-22T21:28:33.466-05:00IF more than one person used the scanned text at t...IF more than one person used the scanned text at the same time, I'd question whether that is "fair use." And since reportedly they had something like 11 reporters on the story, it seems likely that more than one was reading it simultaneously. In other contexts, this would be called "piracy".<br /><br />Scanning for the purpose of electronic searches is probably fair use.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-44631528500710052282009-11-22T16:35:42.396-05:002009-11-22T16:35:42.396-05:00Surely this is not a reasonable intermediary use. ...Surely this is not a reasonable intermediary use. They don't need to copy the entire book in order to quote it; they're copying it so that they can conduct searches. I can understand that they would <b>like</b> to be able to search an electronic copy of the book instead of getting their employees to read and mark-up a paper copy, but it's hardly <b>necessary</b> to the fair-use of quoting from it. <br /><br />Incidentally, this electronic copying also means that they will never need to buy more than one copy of the book - or pay for storing a paper copy. And they won't buy an electronic edition of the book, because they already have one. So there's a financial issue as well.Joe in Australianoreply@blogger.com