Re: book piracy, law, morality and copyright history (was What kinds of Books are pirated and made into EBooks?)

>From: "Brenna Lyons" 
>On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Erica Frank <[email protected]> wrote:
>
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>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:52 AM, joseph harris <[email protected]<smilepoet%40vfemail.net>>
>> wrote:
>> > First - and I was disappointed to find myself disagreeing violently with
>> Erica - many
>> > comments are entirely America-centric. This means the understanding of
>> copyright law is
>> > deficient. Consequenly the understanding of its history and nature is
>> also deficient.
>>
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>Since many of the countries we're dealing with are Berne countries, all
>authors should be aware they write in a global market and that we must be
>aware of the copyright laws of ALL countries that are linked to us that way.
>But, since US law is comprehensive, the usual problem comes with someone
>outside the US abusing US law, when it should be protected by Berne, IMO.
>Others can feel free to disagree with me.
>
>
>
>........
>Brenna
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I am pretty much in agreement with most of what you say, given a tweak here and there. But I don't understand what you mean by  '... since US law is comprehensive, the usual problem comes with someone
>outside the US abusing US law, when it should be protected by Berne,...'

Care to explain?

Joseph



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