Pacheco’s Engineering Company uses a large manual containing…
Pacheco’s Engineering Company uses a large manual containing information for its workforce. The manual is 500 pages long, sells for $150, and is published by We Publish book publishers. Pacheco’s makes some copies of its own book (the Pacheco’s Book), which consists of 400 pages from the We Publish manual and 50 pages from other sources. To train most of its hundreds of workers, Pacheco’s asks each such worker to purchase a copy of the Pacheco’s Book from Caleb’s Copying Coalition, which takes the 450-page Pacheco’s Book and prints copies for sale at cost to the workers. Pacheco’s then reimburses the workers. We Publish demands that this process stop and prepares to file a lawsuit and seek damages from Pacheco’s. Can Pacheco’s be found liable for copyright infringement?