Re: More copyright

["Barbara R. Herbert" <bherb@JUNO.COM>]

AIME can provide anyone with a list of copyright infringement cases.
This information is usually sent free to members (as part of the
membership/renewal packet), but I believe it is available to nonmembers
for a fee.

Executive Director Betty Gorsegner is in the office on Tuesdays and
Thursdays.  Contact her at:

        AIME (Association for Information Media and Equipment)
        PO Box 1173
        Clarksdale, MS  38614
        phone: 1-601-624-9355
        fax: 1-601-624-9366
        email:  aime@gmi.net
        http://www.aime

While Mr. Frazier may (or may not) be right about public performance
rights being a way to get additional cash from the users (us), it is
_still_ part of the copyright law.  Until the law is changed or modified,
we either have to obey it or do what we want and take our chances that we
won't be caught.   I for one don't have the money to pay $100,000 _for
each count of infringement_ .

Barbara

Barbara R. Herbert          Librarian/NASA ERC Coordinator
Georgian Court College     Lakewood, NJ  08701-2697
home: bherb@juno.com     work: herbert@georgian.edu
NASA ERC: NASA_ERC@georgian.edu

On Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:22:39 -0600 Paul Kreamer
<kreamep@SETMMS.TUSD.K12.AZ.US> writes:
>Library Listswains,
>
>Last January the University of Arizona had Ken Frazier in for a brief
>talk
>on copyright.  When he addressed the public performance/private
>performance
>distinction he contended that this issue is essentially a non-existent
>distinction in the law, and simply a guideline corporate copyright
>owners
>have used to bully and extort more cash from users. Who can pony up
>the cash
>to defend themselves against the likes of Disney, or Time-Warner? When
>faced
>with that possibility most of us tend to stay in line.  Does anyone
>know of
>specific court cases that have ruled otherwise and actually enforced
>the
>public/private performance distinction?
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul
>
>Paul Kreamer LMS, Santa Rita High School
>Tucson, AZ
>kreamep@setmms.tusd.k12.az.us
>
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