Copyright issues

R. K. Bose, Copyright Issues in Multimedia, SRI International Business Intelligence Program D92-1692, Menlo Park, Calif., 1992, p. 12. 

Resource for staff, board, and officers in matters of nonprofit or antitrust law personnel and copyright issues legal disputes. 

Most of the laws that apply to print apply to electronic formats now known or later developed . Not everyone interprets the law the same way, and not everyone agrees that some portions of the law should apply to electronic formats. For example, the First Sale Doctrine (Section 109 of the U.S. Copyright Act) would apply to books in print (hard-copy format), but the First Sale Doctrine cannot apply to the electronic version. Once someone has an electronic version, they cannot lend it to someone else by transmitting it, they are reproducing (copying) it. It is important to review basic copyright issues and to apply them to new technology. 

Participants discussed copyright issues, databases, repositories, and methods to retain the value of the scientific work. 

Consider a slightly more complicated example. Let s assume a U.S. corporation decides to build a plant to manufacture its smart phone in China. Some of the factors involved are cost of manufacture of the phone, U.S. market needs, international market needs, international trade protocols, copyright issues, transportation in the United States such as port access, rail access or truck networks, Chinese regulations, negotiations with (he varions relevant Chinese domains, and transportation issnes in China. Which is the engineering context Aren t they all engineering issnes to some degree or other Bnt if they are all to be considered, do they all make up the context Or do we need a better term like, for example, environment ... 

FIG. 2-4 Water content of air, = ( F — 32) X handshaum, Dadds, and Stutzman. Repiinted from -doI. 47, januaiy 1955 issue of Ind. Eng. Chem. [p. 192]. Copyright 1955 hy the American Chemical Society and r eproduced hy permission of the copyright owner )... 

Figure 7-25. Flowchart shows the main issues in deciding the use of either a static mixer or an agitated tank. (Source Myers, K., et at., Chem. Eng. Prog., June 1997. Used with permission of AlChE. Copyright 1997. All rights reserved.)...

Like VDA 6.1, AVSQ 94 does not include the requirements of ISO 9001. In this way issues of copyright are overcome, a practice shared by VDA and EAQF but not QS-9000. However, unlike VDA 6.1, AVSQ 94 follows the 20 elements of ISO 9001 with two additional elements, covering financial considerations and product safety. Those questions that go beyond ISO 9001 are marked and as every question is numbered it simplifies the evaluation process. A scoring method is employed to classify organizations in terms of a conformity index. Each question is awarded a point (0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, or 10), where 10 points means full compliance, 7.5 points means minor inadequacies, 5 points means inadequacies in application requiring improvement, 2.5 points means serious inadequacies in application, and 0 points is used for criteria not applied. Unfortunately all questions carry the same weight as no account of the impact of omission on product quality or customer satisfaction is included. 

Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd. 

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