Re: books

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Commander RV Ramani proclaimed:
> Oomen just a thought...
> isnt xeroxing violating copyrights..?

Depends on why it is being xeroxed.  There is something called "fair use"
with copyrights.  Professors xeroxing a few pages of a textbook to be
circulated among their students is not cosidered to be a copyright
violation.

> and another...
> isnt reading/publishing (and liking) homer simpson's words of wisdom for
> free violating copyrights..?

Please see http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html and
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html

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