Florian Pesth wrote:
> It seems stricter in the netherlands though, if I read andrel 
> correctly. For this copy in germany you don't need to get permission from 
> the copyright holder.

The "Kinko's" case is the one I actually looked at in school:

http://www.wsubooks.com/store1/wichita/copyright.htm

>  In germany there is a large organization collecting money from this and 
> distributing it to the "creators". In principle anyone can register at 
> this organization and claim money, even if you have a private webpage and 
> "create content" this way. It pays only for the big guys though (I think 
> they start paying with 1500 unique page visits for a single page each 
> month or something like that.

That's cool. Here, I think it goes to the same group that charges fees for 
playing music on the radio. There's a law here that says you can play any 
music you want for $X/play, and that music goes to some specific company 
that then redistributes it to the copyright holders. That way, each radio 
station doesn't have to set up a deal with each music studio.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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