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Originally Posted by HarryT
OK, let me rephrase the question: can you give an example of a case where someone has been deemed to be in violation of copyright law by displaying a photograph showing a page of a book on a reading device? What makes you believe that it is a violation of copyright?
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Because we're not supposed to do it on MR, and other sites probably discourage their members from doing this as well. If nobody does it, then nobody gets sued for it.
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Fair use is an affirmative defense to a claim of copyright infringement. It is a privilege, not a right.
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Originally Posted by pruss
True, but it's not a very stable market--it's not something one would want to be making a living off. All that's needed for this market to be killed entirely is for Amazon to decide, in the interests of making the Kindle more popular, to write a better quality conversion script and convert all of PG en masse with it, for free.
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Amazon doesn't need to kill it because they are also profiting from it.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Sure, authors sold works before copyright. And when it became easy to duplicate and redistribute someone's work without their permission, thanks to the printing press and other technologies, copyright was devised to restore fairness to the system and make it worth a creator's time and effort to create. No, it hasn't completely deterred theft, and some are cheated out of their profits now (mostly by those who ignore copyright laws).
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We'll have to agree to disagree on this^ point because I can't see how you can compare the publisher leaving the author with only 25% of the price of the book with the losses caused by 1 or 2 copies being pirated for every 1000 sold and decide that pirating does the most damage. The two cases would only be comparable if you have 3 copies pirated for every copy sold.