1 Sep
2011
1 Sep
'11
11:01 a.m.
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Mark Harris wrote:
No, I think not. Just because a fruit is in a position to be plucked, doesn't mean you have the right to pluck it, especially if you have to trespass to do so.
Example: Libraries are full of books. Therefore, the books are available to be read. They are not available to be copied, however, even though the technology is right there in the library to do so.
The copying is co-incidental to the transmission. If I phoned up the library and said "please send me a book", and they did so, they would have a hard time arguing that I wasn't authorized to receive it. -Martin