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Stories of Interest: NY Times on Camera Phones & Piracy
Nick Bilton raised an interesting issue in his story that appeared in the Sunday New York Times.
He talked about the use of camera phones to make copies of things like magazine articles (Xerox for this millennium).
I asked Julie A. Ahrens, associate director of the Fair Use Project at the Stanford Law School. âThe core issue here is that you are creating a copy of something rather than buying it,â she said. âIs it morally incorrect? Maybe. But it entirely depends how much of the book you copy, and what you do with that copy, that would determine if it was illegal.â
He also spoke with Stan Liebowitz, a professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas and the director of its Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation. This is a man who has spent years investigating the economic impact of the Xerox machine on the publishing industry. His response was that the behavior was closer to music piracy.
Interesting.
This story raises an issue that should probably be addressed by the publishing industry sooner than later.
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