Book publishers sues Staples because they have photocopy machines
Access Copyright has launched a $10 million lawsuit against Staples/The Business Depot for unauthorized copying by store customers. The copyright collective claims this is the largest lawsuit ever launched over copyright infringement of published works in Canada. Given the high stakes, this is the sort of case that could end up at the Supreme Court of Canada. The last time the court addressed the question of photocopying and copyright, the publishers lost badly, with the court ruling that libraries are entitled to presume that their facilities are being used lawfully. Moreover, the Court ruled that fair dealing is a user right that should not be unduly constrained. -Michael Geist
Thanks god for groups like Access Copyright that protect publishers from new technological treats to their intellectual properties. Hopefully it will be some time before they discover computer scanners and the internet.
Photocopy machines should be banned, there is absolutely no way for a book publisher to compete with free copies of the books they publish.
Just for fun replace in the sentence above ‘Photocopy machines’ with ‘P2P networks’ and ‘books’ by ‘music and movies’ and it will quickly become apperent how ridiculous the claims of the RIAA and MPAA truly are.
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