[WEB4LIB] Re: Audio books being shared

[Jerry Kuntz]

Eric,
    I don't recall the last time one of our ILL staff reproduced a
copyrighted item from our collection in its entirety and distributed it
worldwide. Can I get this ILL service from your library?
Jerry Kuntz
jkuntz at rcls.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Hellman <eric at openly.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:21 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Audio books being shared


> It's called "Inter-Library Loan".
>
>
> >If you'd like an example of why the nascent eBook industry is probably
> >scared to death over what they see happening with Napster and MP3--and
why
> >they will try to control how eBooks are loaded on output devices in a
manner
> >that will preserve copyright--try connecting to Napster and searching
some
> >popular author names...
> >..In less than 5 minutes, I found audio books by Stephen King, Michael
> >Crichton, Dean Koontz, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke, Tony Hillerman,
> >Tom Clancy, Edwin Newman, and Clive Cussler--all being "shared" among
> >members of the Napster community.
> >Jerry Kuntz
> >Ramapo Catskill Library System
> >jkuntz at rcls.org
>
> Eric Hellman
> Openly Informatics, Inc.
> http://www.openly.com/           21st Century Information Infrastructure
> LinkBaton: Your Links that Learn     http://my.linkbaton.com/