As someone pointed out to me...we don't make photocopies of each book
purchased for the public or school library, because it would be illegal to
photocopy an entire book. When the book wears out, is damaged, or lost, we purchase
another copy.
I can tell you that personally, I have different formats of my favorite
albums of all times, because the format keeps changing, from 8 track, album,
audio cassette once the Walkman became popular, and CD once I could use it
everywhere. Now there's the MP3 player. Now that technology has made it easier, I
make backup disks for my car or wherever else I want to not worry about my
original getting destroyed.
I don't know what else to tell you.Yes, materials in digital format can more
expensive and fragile. In some cases, I can purchase a library bound copy of
a book that costs just as much as digital media. I just never really thought
about it much...I purchase the material and if it gets damaged blatantly, I
charge the user, and purchase another copy. If it just wears out or gets
scratched, I either replace it or I don't, just like a hardcopy book.
Camille Atkins
Librarian
Fredericksburg Academy
Fredericksburg, VA
catkins@fredericksburgacademy.org
In a message dated 3/21/2008 8:47:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
kgatling@MPH.NET writes:
And yet, we're allowed to do this with our home stuff.
Seems to me that for the longest time the recording and music industries
counted on us losing or wearing out our records and films as a source of
guaranteed future income, and now that we're in the digital age, the idea
that we might be able to make backups is anathema to them.
And yet, when we buy music and movies digitally, we're actually advised to
make backup copies. At least the iTunes Store does. Could this be a case of
the right hand not knowing what the left is doing? Do we maybe need a test
lawsuit to establish that we have a right to make backup copies, a concept
that no reasonable person would find a problem with, and that most
reasonable people would consider the entertainment industry greedy for
trying to squelch?
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Camille Atkins <CUAVCU@aol.com> wrote:
> I understand what you are saying...the purpose of making an archival copy
> is
> to have a copy in case the original is destroyed. According to my
> interpretation of copyright law, we are only allowed to make those backup
> circulating
> copies for software, not for audiovisual, which would include DVDs and
> music
> CDs. Check and see if your video or music producer/supplier gives you the
> purchaser (school) archival rights.
>
> Camille Atkins
> Librarian
> Fredericksburg Academy
> Fredericksburg, VA
> catkins@fredericksburgacademy.org
>
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