| ▲ | danaris 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
No, because when you fold up a newspaper, that doesn't create a new copy. The problem is that copyright laws, at least in most jurisdictions, have never been updated to cope with the fact that computers copy things so many times. Including to load content into memory so they can display it to you. (And on the web, they also often count downloading it to a tempfile in your cache as a separate copy!) So while the website may grant you a license to download its content as-is for viewing, that doesn't mean they grant you a license to modify it and copy it again. Yes, this is an utterly idiotic interpretation of copyright law, that effectively breaks the internet and much of what computers do. However, from a particular point of view, it is one that follows logically. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hyperman1 2 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
This was fixed in 2001. See art 5.1 of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_and_Information_So... ... makes only one exception obligatory: transient or incidental copying as part of a network transmission or legal use ... | |||||||||||||||||
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