# Camera phone book theft banned in Japanese bookstores

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2003-07-08T17:53:41Z


People are using digital cameras and camera phones in Japan to photograph pages of magazines and books instead of buying them.IOLStarting on Tuesday, bookstores across the nation will put up posters urging magazine readers to "refrain from recording information with camera-mounted cellphones and other devices".

I know several people who use digital cameras as document storage devices. Just yesterday, I saw a very cool camera mount for taking pictures of documents with your digital camera. In the context of copyright, there are some very interesting issues here that tie into the whole area of photography copyright.

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