Re: Archiving old magazines on website

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

John Burns wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:48:47 GMT, Pheuque wrote:
>
>> On 10 Mar 2004 01:19:37 +0100, "John Burns"
>> <joobs@grizo.free-onlineNOJUNK.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> >On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 20:59:43 GMT, Charles Richmond wrote:
>> 
>> >US law isn't my thing (I'm in UK) but I've always understood it was the
>same in
>> >this respect. Are you by any chance referring to other laws (soon to be
>enacted
>> >in UK also) which allow criminal proceeding against those who download -
>if so
>> >then these are not copyright laws. The proposals for the UK will mean that
>those
>> >caught with illegal downloads (mp3s etc.) can have their bank accounts
>frozen
>> >and assets siezed (house and contents etc.) - again related to copyright
>theft
>> >but not a copyright law in itself. Either way it's pretty harsh if you get
>> >caught.
>> 
>> GOOD GOD!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!
>
>Yep, though there are those arguing against its implementation. Obviously
though
>how much the provisos were applied would depend on how much you had been
>downloading without permission - but I'd imagine that for certain your
>computer eqpt would go.

This raises an interesting issue.  When does a personal computer
become sufficiently personal that it is, for all intents and purposes,
merely an extension and augmentation of the mind of the owner?

Just as copyright has no applicability to someone memorizing a
work for later silent recitation, it could be construed that storing
a work in a computer for later private use is protected fair use.

It might be necessary to enforce private use by requiring that
the information be, say, password protected or encrypted, but
it seems to me an interesting principle to explore.

This will become even more relevant as computers shrink to
imperceptible, perhaps implantable, scale, and interfaces
become neural.

Using technology to augment memory and computational
powers does not alter the personal domain of those powers.

Note that this does not in any way prevent limits to _public_
recitation, performance, or distribution, which are covered
regardless of whether the performer's memory is augmented.

-michael

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