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Old 03-15-2012, 10:10 AM   #1
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One for the pro-copyright people to think about

http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...liotheek.dhtml


Translated into Pidjin Engrish by Google, but you should be able to get the gist. Book publisher rights organisation demands that libraries who read books to children have to pay them a fee to do so.

Can't happen here? (wherever here is for you.)
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Old 03-15-2012, 10:26 AM   #2
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They aren't making copies, they are just reading. I can't do anything about Belgium's copyright laws, but I would resist this as strongly as possible if it was attempted in the US.
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Old 03-15-2012, 10:33 AM   #3
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They aren't making copies, they are just reading. I can't do anything about Belgium's copyright laws, but I would resist this as strongly as possible if it was attempted in the US.
Copyright in the US includes control of the right "in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly."

Copyrighted plays can't be performed without permission (usually, a license); neither can copyrighted books--and there's no rule that says "public performance" has to mean "acting out with props on a stage." Reading a work aloud for anyone in the public to listen to can easily be interpreted as a "public performance."

The counter-argument is that it's an educational use--that it's not only teaching children often not comfortable with reading (or not able to read) the contents of the book, but the concept that books are good things and worth their interest.

But who'd win in court depends on who has the better lawyers: a public library or a publishing house.
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Old 03-15-2012, 10:37 AM   #4
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But who'd win in court depends on who has the better lawyers
And the judge. I'm always pleased when I hear of a judge throwing out some unjust action by a powerful entity with a comment that amounts to "That's just stupid and wrong, case dismissed."
It happens.
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Old 03-15-2012, 10:38 AM   #5
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No, only with great difficulty and extensive twisting could reading to children a library be construed as a "performance". A single library probably wouldn't be able to fight a publishing house, but if one library fought and lost, all libraries would lose, so the publishers would be fighting the combined power of libraries.

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I'm a bit skeptical that Belgium even exists. It could just be one of those made-up nations. Do we have any actual evidence that such a place exists?

But seriously, they're welcome to their own laws. Could it happen here? Unlikely: I wouldn't be for it. This looks like fair use to me.

Could the publisher (or other entity) even take it to court? Where are the damages?

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Old 03-15-2012, 10:45 AM   #7
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No, only with great difficulty and extensive twisting could reading to children a library be construed as a "performance".
Include a recording of a reading on YouTube and it can get thrown in with all the "pirating" that the publishers object to. It's an unauthorized live audiobook! If you want to hear a book read out loud, you're supposed to buy the mp3!

... yeah, it's a stretch. But considering that we had recording companies attempt to sue cellphone companies for the "public performance" of ringtones, I don't think it's at all unlikely to be filed. (That one got resoundingly stomped. However, that one *also* didn't involve public use of the entire song.)

I can only hope it gets a judge who's savvy enough to say "WTF is this? Hell no, you cannot prevent readings at libraries! What kind of monsters ARE your executives, anyway? Why are you even making children's books if you don't want them read to children?"
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Old 03-15-2012, 10:47 AM   #8
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I'm a bit skeptical that Belgium even exists. It could just be one of those made-up nations. Do we have any actual evidence that such a place exists?
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I would hope that reading to kids in a library wouldn't be considered as "public performance." I find that to be incredibly dumb.
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I would hope that reading to kids in a library wouldn't be considered as "public performance." I find that to be incredibly dumb.
It IS a public performance by any imaginable definition of those words.
I can't imagine how you could NOT consider it so.

However, the position that I think most of us take it is that is the epitome of fair use and of overwhelming importance and value to society, and so should obviously be allowed.

Just like copying for personal backup or for use in a classroom is still copying, but it's allowed.

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It IS a public performance by any imaginable definition of those words.
I can't imagine how you could NOT consider it so.

However, the position that I think most of us take it is that is the epitome of fair use and of overwhelming importance and value to society, and so should be allowed.

Just like copying for personal backup or for use in a classroom is still copying, but it's allowed.

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I should have added something along the lines of "not in the sense of requiring a license to do so." Yes, I realize it's a "public" performance.
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Old 03-15-2012, 10:56 AM   #11
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Could it happen here in the U.S.? Unfortunately it already is.
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It IS a public performance by any imaginable definition of those words.
I can't imagine how you could NOT consider it so.
I don't think 'reading' necessarily rises to the level of 'performance' but, lets carry that to its logical conclusion: What about reading to your children?
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I don't think 'reading' necessarily rises to the level of 'performance' but, lets carry that to its logical conclusion: What about reading to your children?
Not public.

Similarly, showing a DVD movie to your kids on the big screen in your basement is not a public performance, but putting the big screen in a public library would be. Is this really a grey area? Seems rather black and white to me.

Want a grey area? How about a couple of kids on their lawn loudly playing a CD? Passerbys stop to listen. Public performance?

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Depends on where it happens and who is there. If I read a book to my child at the doctors office, since it happens in a public space where it could be heard by others the licensing organizations believe that it is. The same with true with songs.
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What about reading to your children?
Sounds like legalised murder to me.

(my favourite pro-copyright quote of all time)
http://marcusblakeston.wordpress.com...galise-murder/
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