April 25, 2008

You've copied each one of the following.Which one was an abuse of copyright law?


A-Your medical records to be given to your insurance company to confirm coverage
BA magazine article to be used in a presentation that you give a troop of scouts from your computer at home so you can work with home
DA backup copy of your new desktop publishing software to keep your office in case your computer system

9 comments:

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
accidents - Perfectly legal. Perhaps a violation of privacy, but not copyright.

B-In addition perfectly legal, provided that you quoted the author of the work or obtained written permission. A presentation for a scout troop is somewhat of a grey area, is it a troop BoyScout? Or is this just a community of camping thing? Providers of May BoyScout not be regarded as private use, a small community camping thing May. Lois copyrights are much more convoluted than just plagiarism and copyright infringement. The private use, educational use, etc. is a legitimate use of copyright and May May or not a written authorization. It depends on very specific circumstances whether or not you May or May not be a violation of the clause of copyright.

C / D - Creating a backup copy of software / music / etc strictly for backup purposes is legal. You must be able to prove that you purchased the software / music to keep the receipt. It depends on the license. Some strictly prohibit copying. Some say sure, go ahead and give me a copy for your records. Some tell me distribute as many as you want. Read the license and conditions of use. Your answer lies there. The federal government, however, as far as I know, it is perfectly legal to maintain a backup copy of your files about any software / music / etc.

So, in theory, the only scenario that May not be legal is B, and depending on license information, perhaps 11,111 D. I am not sure what C) is as it seems to have been typed over. However, C) is a definitive break of copyright. This is because the others are not. A), they are your own records both in the sense of being about you and for your interest, but you seem to have possession of them crime is burglary is a more serious problem or that you have. For B), it depends on the amount used and purpose. As concerns magazine articles and similar things, small portions May freely be extracted for use in an article university. Paper for school. This sort of thing. With appropriate citation to the question "They used May also be extracted from the allocation for commercial use endeavors as a newspaper column, but it better be really small and not very important to the object if the owner of copyright dispute if it could be used without payment or not. D) is not a violation, in particular, that Congress included a provision in the law to allow a single backup copy of any software you buy. You do not even have to say a goal, you have the right, regardless of why you make the copy.

It remains incomplete C). It seems that you copy something, the software most likely, at home and use. It's a bit difficult if, as some licenses allow proprietary software to load the software on more than one machine as the owner takes care never to allow two copies to be used at the same time. An analogy would be a book. You may read in many places, but can not make a copy which would result in two people who read the original copy and at the same time. However, almost nobody fact that nowadays, so C) appears to be an appropriate choice and, insofar as the others do not, c) he is.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
A: Your medical records are yours so you can make and distribute copies as many times as you want without breaching copyright.
D: the software can be copied once to back up your investment as long as should you sell on the original you sell or destroy the copy you made.

B: magazine article legaly can not be copied or used without the permission of the copyright holder.

if the answer to the question is magaizine B, the article is an abuse of copyright. A-

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
is legal, records are yours
D-many companies tell you to make a backup copy, provided that you have the software, it is legal (such as burning a CD as long as you have, you can also burn)
C-and you do not have a C

The answer is B even if you cite, it must have permission from the copy editor section (the person, saying well if you mention it is wrong, if you mention you can not be accused of plagiarism, but simply to copy the article without permission is illegal.)

Have a great day!

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
C.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
If you mention in your work B, then the answer is D. software is generally not supposed to be copied.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
The answer is D. What happened to C?

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
A. You have a right to have a copy of your medical record, provided that you do not just fly out of doctor's office.

B. If you mention the magazine article, it would be ok.

D. Most software specifically told not to copy any purpose whatsoever.

D is my selection for the illegal trade.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
None.
A - your personal records, no copyright attached.

B - Magazine article - falls within the exemption for "fair use" no violation.

D - Save - you bought you the right to use it as you wish, provided that you do not sell, give it to someone else, or use more than one computer. (Technically. even your own.)

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
Well you are entitled to your medical records if you copies, I think you're ok. I would also like to agree with Amanda that if you detail where, whom and with the permission that you got the information about your presentation, I would say D. Even if you have some software companies do not allow any type of copy of where other software will allow you once a copy to keep a backup if the original is damaged.