Here 'tis: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html In a message dated 5/23/01 10:45:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ahynes1@yahoo.com writes:

My understanding of the disclaimer is that such forwarding of copyrighted material would be permissable.

Not quite--it's not the one who copies who has the authority to make the decision. My desire to distribute someone's work without profiting from the action--to someone who wants it--does not make it ok because, for example, I might be depriving the author from his right to profit. (People who receive my free copies would have no need to purchase the original from the author's distributing agent.) It's not up to me to rationalize by saying, "this work will never turn a profit for the author in a million years, so my action cannot harm his/her interests." The proposed interpretation would make it ok to scan textbooks and distribute the scans freely. Cheers, Bob Briggs Westport, MA