Acrobat document - print disabled

[Richard Wiggins]

Hmmm....  Good question.  I'm not sure you can answer this in the abstract.  If you have rights to view the content on screen, my guess is you can print it, or take a digital photo of it, or dictate it into your voice recorder.  

On the other hand, if you take something you had rights for one individual to view, and print 1000 copies for mass distribution, that'd seem to be a whole 'nother question.  

A possibly more important issue: would it specifically violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's provisions against reverse engineering to defeat a digital copy protection scheme?  As I understand it, that section of the law doesn't look at rights or intent, it just proscribes behaviors that defeat protection schemes.

These would be really good questions for the CNI Copyright mailing list...

/rich


Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:26:23 -0400
From: "Masters, Gary E" <GEM at CDRH.FDA.GOV>
To: "'web4lib at webjunction.org'" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Subject: Acrobat document - print disabled

Has anyone had any success in printing Acrobat document with the print
feature disabled.  I have an idea about the security password but don't know how to address it to the program.  Or are there any cut and paste methods that work.

Is it a violation of copyright to try this?

If so, I won't.

Thanks,

Gary
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