Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Handbook of Acrylics

[Marc de Piolenc <piolenc@archivale.com>]

Jesus, guys - she's already paid for a copy of the book! Look up your US 
copyright law (which I know rather well, since my business is reprints). 
To bring suit or to get a criminal complaint entertained, you have to 
prove harm - in this case loss of sales. If somebody were to send Helge, 
who has already paid for a copy of the book, a PDF as an advance copy, 
that does not diminish sales, therefore there is no harm.

The mere fact of scanning a book is not a copyright violation; that is 
already settled by reams of case law. Google Books is right now busy 
scanning tons (literally) of copyrighted material.

If you're going to fulminate, at least get the facts first.

Marc de Piolenc

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On 11/10/2010 12:21 AM, Jon Wallace wrote:
> Hi Helge,
>
> I've been out of town for about a week, but I should have your order
> shipped in the next day or two. In fact, I have a few orders to get out
> this week.
>
> If someone in the US were to scan the book into PDF format and send it
> to you without permission of Stachiw's family, that would qualify as
> distribution of an unauthorized copy and violate Stachiw's copyright. I
> know it would be an easy matter for Stachiw's family to file suit
> against any US source of the PDF, and under US law Stachiw's family
> could be awarded statutory damages up to $110,000 plus legal fees
> without any requirement to prove actual damages.
>
> As I replied to someone else recently on this same topic, even if an
> international agreement didn't exist between the US and other countries,
> Dr. Stachiw and his surviving family have been very good friends to
> PSUBS providing us with excellent discounts for the book and speaking to
> us at the 2007 convention. I'd hate for them to discover a topic like
> this one and assume that we allow our online resources to be used for
> solicitation of unauthorized copies of Dr. Stachiw's excellent book.
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
>
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