From: Horse (horse@darkstar.uk.net)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 00:58:04 GMT
Hi Wim
Just a word of caution regarding distributing an electronic version of Lila.
Distributing anything which is copyrighted is a highly dubious affair and could land you
in serious trouble with authorities both/either at home and abroad (especially abroad).
With all the new laws (both coming in and proposed) at the moment to do with
copryright, digital protection and digital rights there is much that is either considered
grey or no go areas. At best it's a big mess and there are test cases beginning to arise.
The best course (unless you want to risk becoming involved in a test case) is that you
don't distribute unless it's OK-ed with Pirsig and/or the publishers (or anyone who holds
some claim over it).
It's your choice but better safe than sorry.
Horse
On 29 Oct 2002 at 22:07, Wim Nusselder wrote:
> Dear Matthew, Platt and Rick,
>
> I don't know anything about 'the fair-use protections of the federal
> copyright act' that Rick mentions 24/10 16:18 -0400 and even very little
> about Dutch copyright laws. I guess however that neither prohibits me from
> having and using a scanned version of 'Lila', given the fact that I have
> also bought the book. Platt knows its origin, I think. It is a Word file and
> very convenient to find passages and to cut quotes from and past them into
> e-mails. Its size is 677 kB, so I think I could legally e-mail it to anyone
> who can prove to me that he/she has already bought the book (and who has an
> e-mail provider that sets no limit to e-mails lower than 677 kB). Do you
> agree, Platt? I could also put the file on my website to be downloaded by
> anyone who gets the exact URL from me in exchange for this proof of already
> having bought the book (if necessary with a password which I regularly
> change). What kind of proof do you think, Platt, would I have to ask to
> prevent the publisher from suing me?
>
> With friendly greetings,
>
> Wim
>
>
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