Re: Let's create an OFFICIAL A2 Library!

["Arkain" <rwking@no.usa.spam.net>]

DCMA Section 108 Paragraph 8 Sub-paragraph 4:

In addition, the DMCA provides that preservation copying, which had been
limited to instances where a copy of work has damaged, deteriorating, lost
or stolen and a replacement copy is not available at a fair price, may also
be preserved if the copy's format has become obsolete. "Obsolesence" occurs
if the machine necessary to read the work is no longer being manufactured or
cannot be acquired reasonably in the marketplace.

Apple 2 materials fall under the "Obsolesence" definition since the A2
system is no longer being manufactured. Since the library itself will be
virtual, the location of the library is actually distributed across the
homes of each individual user who accesses the site. Under that condition,
we're not allowed to leave our houses with a copy. ;-)

Arkain

Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote in message
news:nP%f5.252$Ib7.721058@dca1-nnrp1.news.digex.net...
> No so fast.
>
> The section says that works in digital format may not be made available to
> the public outside the premises of the library.  In other words, library
> patrons are not permitted to take a copy home.
>
> Read this for an explanation
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/primer.html
>
>
>
> Arkain wrote in message <39808dd9$1@hal.grnco.net>...
> >Can you keep that sight open indefinitely?
> >
> >We're going to need to get all the of the A2 user groups in on this if we
> >plan on making this work. We'll consider them to be the local branches of
> >this Internet Public Library. All of the FAQs, data sheets, books, and
> other
> >items should somehow be made available from here, even if some of the
> >materials have to be sold. Either way, I'd like to make 1 *definitive*
> >location for all A2 related info with links to the other A2 sites. Can we
> do
> >that?
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