Leonard
You are quite right of course, that a copy can be taken from a printed one,
but the making of the further copy is not inevitable, or even necessary for
use. However, the very act of viewing on screen a copy that is on floppy
disk makes a copy, albeit an impermanent one in the computer's memory; the
copying of the file from the floppy disk to a hard disk is another copy; the
printing out of the file onto paper is another copy, and so on. These are
issues that are being argued over endlessly by lawyers involved with IP;
some of them may to some extent be dealt with by the forthcoming European
directive, but they were not foreseen when the Regulations were drafted and
are as a result not allowed for by them.
Tim
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Curator of Photographs
Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on Public Records
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> From: Leonard Will[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: Leonard Will
> Sent: 20 December 2000 14:51
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Scanned images
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> In message <0EF3F49640E5D21197A10001FA7EA00001812BFB@PRO06> on Wed, 20
> Dec 2000, Padfield, Tim <[log in to unmask]> wrote
> >The supply of a copy on floppy disk
> >in addition to a hard copy is in itself the supply of more than one copy
> >(as above), but it could also be interpreted as providing the means to
> >print off further copies subsequently.
>
> Is there really any difference in principle between supplying an
> electronic copy and supplying a paper copy? Either could be used as a
> master for further reproduction, and I don't imagine that the
> regulations are concerned with the fact that copies printed from floppy
> disc will all be "first generation" copies while those copied from a
> paper master will be "second generation" copies with a slight loss of
> quality.
>
> Leonard Will
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