Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxqq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxqq!uname From: uname@pyuxqq.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.legal Subject: Re: Theft of Copyrighted Material Message-ID: <599@pyuxqq.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-May-84 15:35:35 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxqq.599 Posted: Mon May 7 15:35:35 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 4-May-84 00:39:52 EDT Lines: 7 I wonder why its OK to take a book out of a library, read it, and return it, paying NOTHING to the copyright owner, but its not OK to copy the book and then read it? Either way, the copyright owner gets zero. Or does the library pay the owner? For the user, the legal way (using the library) is even cheaper than the illegal way (cause of copying costs).