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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Adam's fine posting on copyright needs only one short addendum.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>It isn't ONLY cases in which someone is going to profit from the use of material</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>that copyright issues can arise. You might think that if there is no profit</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>to be made you're in the clear--this isn't the case. Copyright also covers</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>situations in which the copyright holder suffers a loss of profit because your</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>use of their material diminishes their ability to sell it at full price.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>This situation came up well before Napster, when universities were called to task for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>providing faculty with photocopies of articles out of journals to which their libraries subscribed,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>which the publishers felt was diminishing the personal subscriptions to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>those journals they could sell to faculty directly. There is now a considerable difference</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>between "institutional" subscription rates and "personal" subscription rates to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>compensate copyright holders for losses due to library readership.</FONT>
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