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Should we follow copyright laws? How closely? Here's a couple situations…

1) You are crazy about family history, and you have a Grandparent's Legacy book that has questions you want to ask your grandfather. The problem is, your elderly grandpa lives hundreds of miles away. He can't write well, but he can type. Your mom suggests typing out the questions in the book, printing them out, and giving it to him as a sort of assignment. He can type them out on the computer. Then you think about the copyright. What do you do?

2) You want to remember the words to the songs of a whole album. You can type them out as a note on your Kindle. But the copyright. What do you do?

Discuss!

Theology. This, is theology.

Yup.

Theology.

The idea behind copyright laws is to protect creative people from their ideas being stolen. If you aren't writing down the questions or lyrics so you can sell them or something, it should be totally fine. Also, if you give credit to the author in your writing, that should make it doubly fine. Anyway, that's what I think. :)

It's a practical application of theology.

That makes sense to me, but I'm still not sure. Don't the copyright laws have something to do with the actual work? Like the actual book. If people buy one and then write the questions down to use with three other grandparents, isn't that cheating the publisher/author out of the profits?

Do a google search for copyright laws. You should find an approximately 350-375 page document. Look at page 34. It would seem that according to thus, at least case one is okay if not case two. You should look at it for yourself. Look at the fair uses section on page 34.

It's a practical application of theology.