Re: public lending right
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:21:55AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Colin Watson writes:
> > I thought lending was just a specialized form of distribution.
>
> Lending is not distribution at all. If I loan you a book and you read it
> and give it back copyright has not been impinged upon. That's why public
> libraries can exist.
The UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 covers lending to the
public. See
<http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/intellectual_property.htm>.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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