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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dana_Jorgensen" data-source="post: 1542528" data-attributes="member: 12962">Problem is, there isn't anything in fair use that actually states you have any right to make a complete reproduction of a copyrighted work. The archival application of copyright law only applies to computer-related technologies as a legacy to the early years when hardware was vastly less reliable than it is now. You do not have any right under fair use to duplicate a print product, be it via scanning, photocopying, or duplicating it by hand.Again, this stems from the layman's misunderstanding of fair use. Fair use allows the duplication of short passages of the book. Even entire pages are often outside the scope of fair use. The lawsuit I mentioned involved the lawfirm photocopying pages for highlighting, thereby sparing the book the highlighting damage and eliminating the need to replace the book the next time a passage needed to be highlighted a second time.Just wait until the next step in copyright evolution occurs at the hands of big business. Now the push is to have copyrights last the life of the author or first entity to buy it; in other words, a copyright on a new disney movie wouldn't burn out until the company ceases to exist.My personal view is copyright should last 20 years with infinite renewals every 20 years. Initial copyright fee is $0, while renewal fees are based on an escalating scale. This way, big business can maintain its media copyrights at an ever-increasing cost. In either case, copyright should end with the life of the entity holding it, meaning the material becomes public domain if a business goes under without being bought out.best of all, just imagine what all the revenues generated from those fees could do for the Library of Congress in its efforts to restore and digitally archive the incredibly vast collection of trademarked and copyrighted works it possesses, and the fees would cause big business to eventually start weighing the fiscal value of the IP it owns with each renewal. As things currently stand, IP value is assigned a general bulk value to everything a company owns, since money that would be spent on a simple cyclic renewal process is instead dumped into industrial lobbying for copyright changes.</blockquote>

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