You can indeed tell someone what you read in a book. That is the only purpose of the book. You just can't copy it - that right belongs to the holder of the copyright! You can't republish it in any way, though you can cite small excerpts with attribution. The flap over copyright came up because someone scanned the whole book and published it to the list. That's a clear violation of the copyright laws. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:22 AM To: Pianotech List Subject: Re: Pierce Piano Atlas Is there not a significant difference between telling someone something you read in a book . . . . and trying to sell it and pass it off as your own . . . The later would be the copyright issue . . Jim Kinnear Happily telling customers the age of their piano . . maybe I should make them buy the book ??? ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew Todd <mailto:toddpianoworks at att.net> To: Pianotech List <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Pierce Piano Atlas I guess I missed that! But I did search the archives to find the very threatening letter by Mr. Ashley. And that's all it was. It's been more than 12 days and I am still finding Atlas information in the archives, from 1999! You guys better comply! If you can't post the year on the list, then you may e-mail me privately. Giving me the year is no different than letting your customers know the age of their piano. You are not infringing on the copyright by giving the year. But I did see in the archives where some people here were giving actual information compiled and written in the Atlas. If you cannot give me the year due to copyright, then we had better erase that information from our client database systems! Matthew paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> wrote: Mr Todd, I guess you missed the legal copyright notification posted here by none other than the Pierce publisher that we ain't s'pose ta' be postin' copyrighted info like that here on the list. Check the archives. It was a coupla months back. It was big. Very annoying. Let's not start that again. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net> wrote: Can someone with an 11th edition, give me the year of a Boston s/n 133176? Thank you. Matthew -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080531/635f6cae/attachment-0001.html
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