The purpose of the Copyright is to protect the printing businesses.
Unfortunately the Law does not have an understanding that some people will
need to access the information in alternative formats yet. As far as I
remember the law even does not allow to even copy(scanning/photocopying)
more than one chapter or 10% of your own purchased books, let alone the
ones in t a library. I understand that some progress has been taking place
in terms of lobbying by the RNID since last year. Andy Velarde
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From: "Peter Hill" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Fees/Essential texts
> Hi
>
> Mervyn Robertson wrote:
>
> >snip...
> > The answer at that time, and I'm not sure that this has changed (apart
from
> > the current activity with regard to alternative formats for the Blind),
was
> > that it is illegal to use any form of electronic scanning in order to
store
> > printed material on a computer. Institutions will pay a fee to the CLA
in
> > order to facilitate the photocopying of portions of books but this is
not
> > extended to electronic capture.
> >
>
>
> I'm not sure that reading from the printed page using OCR software
> really involves 'storage'(I know the data goes temporarily into the
> computer memory). My assumption is that unless the text is saved, it
> would be difficult to argue that any copyright infringement has taken
> place. After all, what's the difference between using a CCTV (the text
> does pass through a processor) and using OCR - as far as copyright is
> concerned?
>
> Any suggestion by the Copyright Licensing Authority that using OCR
> simply to aid reading infringes copyright would surely be untenable (and
> bizarre).
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Hill
>
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