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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 5221933" data-attributes="member: 23935">I generally avoid morality -- it's a poor system to base interactions between people and person to society in general.  I know I require different treatment than others seem to expect themselves to be treated (death before dishonour is not my cup of tea, for example).  Ethical and legal interaction is a better basis for consistent expectation across different people.Yes there is a difference in morality in these cases under the copyright reservations normally seen on professionally published work.  Copyleft, Creative Commons, and other alternative licensing can have different answers.In the case of providing a single page to the other party, the providing copy is adhering to the wishes of the creator of the work as expressed in the rights granted by the creator.  By creating/procuring a electronic copy, the providing party is specifically going against the wishes of the creator and breaking the expectations under which the creator made his work available.Why might a creator want this restriction?In printing off a single page or part thereof, the other party is given a taste as to the content and quality found in the work in question.  If the other party were to agree that the work was worth using, he can go and acquire a copy of his own.  Additionally, the providing party is exercising due care that the receiving party cannot misuse the work (i.e. keep without payment or provide further distribution against the creator's wishes) as can happen in the full copy were presented.</blockquote>

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