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I have a UK copyright question.
I'm taking an on-line class and the text we are using is being distributed to us by the school as password protected pdf files. The formatting is terrible in them. No page numbers, lots of textual cross-referencing but no hyperlinks, no bookmarks, and the files weren't even saved so that you can do a "find" type search in them. I have "fixed" all of that in my personal copies, which appears to be an allowable exception (personal study) under UK copyright law.
Can I now offer to share these files with the other students in the class (free of charge) and protected with the original passwords on them? There is no profit in it, and it does not deprive the school of potential future income, since the password changes with each new group that takes the class so, if the school were to decide to add these features to future versions of the files and wanted to charge more for them, they would be able to without any competition from me.
Anyone who has looked into UK copyright laws have any opinions on this?
I'm taking an on-line class and the text we are using is being distributed to us by the school as password protected pdf files. The formatting is terrible in them. No page numbers, lots of textual cross-referencing but no hyperlinks, no bookmarks, and the files weren't even saved so that you can do a "find" type search in them. I have "fixed" all of that in my personal copies, which appears to be an allowable exception (personal study) under UK copyright law.
Can I now offer to share these files with the other students in the class (free of charge) and protected with the original passwords on them? There is no profit in it, and it does not deprive the school of potential future income, since the password changes with each new group that takes the class so, if the school were to decide to add these features to future versions of the files and wanted to charge more for them, they would be able to without any competition from me.
Anyone who has looked into UK copyright laws have any opinions on this?