Problems with pdf files.

[Janina Sajka]

Let's be clear about this. Whatever you read in any copyright statement is 
valid only if it falls within the law goveerning copyright. Congress and 
the courts decide what the law is in the U.S., not copyright holders. 
Silly statements such as the one below about reading aloud are exactly the 
kind of industry over-reaching that's going to get the DMCA reopened in 
Congress one of these days.
 On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Geoff Shang wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Amanda Lee wrote:
> 
> > So if I have a colleague print the document and I then scan it with an OCR
> > program, is that illegal?  Yet I technically would have displayed the
> > document in another form.  So I also suppose it is illegal to magnify the
> > font on the screen so that a low vision person can read it?  Godf forbid!
> 
> A friend of mine said that he's seen a copyright licence for a particular
> PDF document that said that the person did not have the right to read the
> document aloud.
> 
> Fair use will get killed off if we let it.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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