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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