Seems that Airspeed Press has gone out of business?
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ThatDogDontHunt
Oscar Meyer Weiner
Because if they did they, it would make sense for them to announce they had obtained permission instead of suggesting that we all try and find pirate PDF copies....Lots of people do not seem to understand that IP theft is theft!
"The book is currently out of print, however, PDF copies do exist. Seek and ye shall find!"
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gue.com
Ooh. Contributory copyright infringement!
I saw that oh-so-clever statement when that blog article, How Deep Is Your Library, was published. If that statement prompts you to do a Google search with "site:gue.com" you will find what I have to believe is an unauthorized copy on GUE's website. If it were authorized, GUE would have simply provided a link in that article instead of playing this game. Shame on GUE.
Lots of people do not seem to understand that unauthorized use of IP is not necessarily theft.
In particular, in the USA individual non-commercial use of out-of-print factual works are highly likely to fall under the Fair Use exception to copyright.
17 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Link is to the relevant US Code. For a more complete explanation, be sure to click the Notes tab.
Where can I find some authority for that? I have always been under the impression that, of the Fair Use factors, the third factor, "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole," is likely to weigh heavily against you if you copy the entire work. Excerpts, sure, but an entire book, even if out of print and arguably "factual"?
ThatDogDontHunt
Oscar Meyer Weiner
And lots of people do not understand what non-commercial use means?Lots of people do not seem to understand that unauthorized use of IP is not necessarily theft.
In particular, in the USA individual non-commercial use of out-of-print factual works are highly likely to fall under the Fair Use exception to copyright.
17 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
www.law.cornell.edu
Link is to the relevant US Code. For a more complete explanation, be sure to click the Notes tab.
Taking a pirated complete PDF copy instead of buying an available hardcopy (at an ever increasing price point due to scarcity) seems to clearly fall into the commercial use definition?
"Generally speaking, copyright law favors scholarship, science, research and education—in essence, non-commercial use."
When fair use becomes copyright infringement - LAC Group
This article will cover some fair use basics and common use questions as they pertain to users within enterprise organizations.
lac-group.com
Vance Harlow's books?
What can be considered only "arguably factual" about them? I cannot think of a dive shop, since the late nineties that hasn't had copies of, at least, his regulator book, if not the gas mixing volume -- if only to read between the lines of occasionally opaque or vague manufacturer's service manuals . . .
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