Rob - I would recommend buying an attorney lunch one day, pay him $400 and find out the difference between distribution rights and copyright rights.
All of your examples are distribution violations. Nobody is disagreeing with you on that front. It is, as far as what attorneys have told me, perfectly legal to 'lend' a copyrighted material to someone, but it has to follow the 'like a book' usage model, i.e., I can't use it while they have it.
I challenge you to find a single court case where somebody loaned a single individual a copyrighted work, the second person used it, returned it to the original 'owner' (not copyright holder) and the 'owner' got sued successfully.
You are right, I can't publish it on a website, where many people could read it at the same time (not like a book).
What you are thinking the law is and what it really is seems to be two different things.
Dan
All of your examples are distribution violations. Nobody is disagreeing with you on that front. It is, as far as what attorneys have told me, perfectly legal to 'lend' a copyrighted material to someone, but it has to follow the 'like a book' usage model, i.e., I can't use it while they have it.
I challenge you to find a single court case where somebody loaned a single individual a copyrighted work, the second person used it, returned it to the original 'owner' (not copyright holder) and the 'owner' got sued successfully.
You are right, I can't publish it on a website, where many people could read it at the same time (not like a book).
What you are thinking the law is and what it really is seems to be two different things.
Dan