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Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple
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Hyman Rosen |
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Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:57:14 -0000 |
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On 8/3/2010 4:21 PM, RJack wrote:
The exclusive right to copy and distribute is a *necessary* but not a
*sufficient* condition to control distribution of a derivative work of
two authors. The fact that you don't understand this difference is
glaringly obvious.
The "work as a whole" to which the GPL refers is not (necessarily) a
derivative work (which is an alteration of an existing work representing
a significant act of authorship). It is usually just a combined work,
consisting of linked-together GPLed code and other code. The exclusive
rights granted to copyright holders by law permits them to exercise
extremely fine-grained control over the copying of their works, and that
includes whether they grant permission for copying when the work is part
of a combined work. Such permission must be obtained separately for each
such combined work.
The GPL permits a work to be copied as part of a larger work only if
that work as a whole is distributed under the GPL.
Which, of course, is the result of a *contractual* agreement between a
preexisting author and a modifying author who are in contractual privity.
It's the result of a license granted by the copyright holder.
As I said, an exclusive right to distribute a derivative work "as a
whole" does not exist in the Copyright Act.
Neither does a right to copy and distribute a work "in hardcover form".
The Copyright Act grants holders the exclusive rights to all forms of
copying and distribution. The holders may then hand out fine-grained
permissions as they see fit.
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, (continued)
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, Hyman Rosen, 2010/12/08
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, Hyman Rosen, 2010/12/08
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, RJack, 2010/12/08
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, Hyman Rosen, 2010/12/08
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, RJack, 2010/12/08
- Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple,
Hyman Rosen <=
Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, 7, 2010/12/08
Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, ZnU, 2010/12/08
Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, ZnU, 2010/12/08
Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/12/08
Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08