Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
OK, let's continue to look at it, shall we?
Mother receives a copy in an e-mail - that's one additional copy.
Mother saves the e-mail attachment to hard disk - that's two copies.
Mother copies the book to an e-book reader - that's three copies.
Really, however you choose to look at it, there are multiple copies involved. You may regard it as a "silly technicality"; I must beg to differ.
|
All of which are incidental copies that are created in the act of using or transferring the content. None of which is what copyright was really meant to cover.
If they are loaning to multiple people at the same thing, that would be bad. If they want to read the eBook at the same time their mother is, that would be bad. The stuff you're talking about is just the nature of how digital files work. It's a technicality and has nothing to do with the spirit of copyright. What you're talking about is the same thing as opening an application to read the eBook, which then loads another copy into RAM (oh no!).