[Boatanchors] 73 Magazine pdf files

[Glen Zook]

Specific excerpts can fall under the "fair use" provisions.  But, copying entire issues does not.  You are allowed to make copies for "personal use" (i.e. to "protect" the original from damage) but you cannot legally distribute any of those copies to others.

It is perfectly legal to sell, give away, loan, etc., an ORIGINAL copyrighted item.  But, to distribute copies of items not in the public domain is not legal.

Violating the Copyright Law of the United States of America is definitely one of the more common violations of any laws.  With the advent of the copy machine and now the electronic scanner making and distributing copies of copyrighted material is absurdly simple.  However, the fact that it is very easy to violate the law doesn't make it correct!

I live about a mile from the University of Texas at Dallas campus.  There used to be one of those "do it yourself copy shops" in the area which had high speed copy machines and the cost per copy was like 4 cents each.  A number of the students at UTD got the idea of purchasing a single textbook at the college "book store" and then making multiple copies of the textbook at the "copy shop".  Then they would get a full refund from the book store for the original.  Many of these textbooks were in the well over $100 range and the students would pay under $20 for the copies.  The number of students obtaining these copies ranged from a handful to several hundreds with the sale of these textbooks by the college "book store" dropping to almost zero.

One day Federal Agents "showed up" at the "copy shop" with a court order instructing the employees of the "copy shop" NOT to allow ANY copying of copyrighted material without the express permission of the owner of the copyright.  Needless to say, the students who had been making copies of the textbooks were not happy!  But, their copying activities were basically thwarted and the sales of textbooks at the college "book store" went back to their "normal" level.

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Sat, 5/15/10, RAY FRIESS <rayfrijr at msn.com> wrote:

Giving away copies is no different than coming on here and asking if someone can copy the schematic of a DX 100 and mail it to you.   It fits under the "fair use" exception to copyright laws.