"E-books the same as printed ones, says top Euro court egghead"
"Joseph Harris joe9438-/[email protected] [ebook-community]" <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:30:48 +0100
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/16/ebooks_same_as_printed_says_ecj_advisor/
This is about library lending, and the view is that of the Advocate
General Maciej Szpunar of the European Court of Justice. The thing to
note is the view that "commercial imperatives have always been put to
the side when it comes to the importance of sharing information over the
ages". I'm not sure that this statement has legs; copyright developed
between the 1710 Copyright Act of Anne, and the creation of the Berne
Convention in the later nineteenth century.
Generally, before that, books were either published by permission of
kings, or printed in England and Britain by and under the ownership of
the Stationers' Company members [printers and publishers] and with the
permission of censors..In the UK and American Colonies the Stamp Act on
newspapers in the mid eighteenth century led to protest - in the
colonies adding to "American Exit" [cf Brexit] and in Great Britain
eventually leading to the reality of "no taxation on knowledge" [VAT on
UK ebooks is in violation of the principle].
The pdf of his views [not in full] is here:
http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-06/cp160064en.pdf
Joseph Harris
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This is about library lending, and the view is that of the <span
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of the </span><span
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Court
of Justice<span class="Apple-converted-space">. The thing to note
is the view that "</span></span><span
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imperatives
have always been put to the side when it comes to the
importance of sharing information over the ages</span><span
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class="Apple-converted-space">". I'm not sure that this statement has
legs; copyright developed between the 1710 Copyright Act of Anne, and
the creation of the Berne Convention in the later nineteenth century.<br>
<br>
Generally, before that, books were either published by permission of
kings, or printed in England and Britain by and under the ownership of
the Stationers' Company members [printers and publishers] and with the
permission of censors..In the UK and American Colonies the Stamp Act on
newspapers in the mid eighteenth century led to protest - in the
colonies adding to "American Exit" [cf Brexit] and in Great Britain
eventually leading to the reality of "no taxation on knowledge" [VAT on
UK ebooks is in violation of the principle].<br>
<br>
The pdf of his views [not in full] is here:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-06/cp160064en.pdf">http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-06/cp160064en.pdf</a><br>
<br>
Joseph Harris<br>
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