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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=230242513-02102002>This
point was answered by native speakers of English, who discuss the issue from
their particular viewpoint. However, copyright problems differ in various
countries, and on one reading of the Polish law you can hold as much text as you
want on your computer, provided it is used for research, and is not used in
commerce. Some people differ with regard to this, of course. It would be
interesting to know what the practice in other countries is, e.g. Germany or
France.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>profesor Tadeusz Piotrowski<BR>Instytut Filologii
Angielskiej<BR>Uniwersytet Opolski<BR>Oleska 48<BR>Opole, Poland
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Amsler, Robert<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:13
PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Adam Kilgarriff'; Rafal Górski<BR><B>Cc:</B>
corpora@hd.uib.no<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Corpora-List] Legal aspects of corpora
compiling<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
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<P><FONT size=2>Adam's fine posting on copyright needs only one short
addendum.</FONT> </P>
<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> </P>
<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> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>