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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