Copyright did not anticipate the digital age

Copyright did not anticipate the digital age

Posted Jun 30, 2005 4:56 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40)
In reply to: Supreme Court rules against file swapping (ZDNet) by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Supreme Court rules against file swapping (ZDNet)

> Reading something is not copyright infringement.
> Your friend is either joking or an idiot.

Sadly, many legislative and judicial decisions, in the US and elsewhere, foster the idea that reading something on a computer *is* invoking copyright, and is thus copyright infringement if done without license. The bits are copied from a storage medium into the computer's memory, thus copyright is invoked -- so the logic goes.

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