[LINK] A Definition Of Piracy In The Digital Age

[Richard Chirgwin]

Lea de Groot wrote:
> On 06/02/2009, at 1:14 PM, Chris Gilbey wrote:
>
>   
>> But the big question is what constitutes piracy now in the digital  
>> content
>> space?
>>     
>
> Piracy is simply a breech of the defined Terms of Use of the content  
> in question.
> No one ever said we couldn't pass old paperbacks around, so that isn't  
> piracy.
>   
More to it than that ... regards "old paperbacks", there is a right (for
example) to re-sell a book. That is, it's not just that the publishers
never thought to prevent resale, but that an active and defined right is
in legislation.

(And if I seem like a bit of a nag on this point, fine by me; because
since (let me see) about 1988 when I wrote a story about an e-book
reader created in Canberra, there's always been someone telling me to
get with the program or words to that effect...)

I suspect, Lea, that if a publisher tried a "no sharing, one reader
only" license condition it might have trouble making it stand up in the
courts, but of course IANAL ...
> The TOS of (most) e-books say the same can't be done, so sending on a  
> copy IS piracy.
>   
Two people reading the same screen is piracy in some of the TOS I've seen.

RC
> A concert? I think it would come down to reading the fine print on the  
> ticket stub - I think most don't want you to record them, although  
> IIRC the Grateful Dead more or less built their following on bootleg  
> concert recordings?
>
> (Not that I *agree* with the above ability to define unreasonable  
> terms of use!)
>
> Lea
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