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Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code
From: |
Lee Hollaar |
Subject: |
Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:50:28 +0000 (UTC) |
In article <x5oenhotjw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>hollaar@faith.cs.utah.edu (Lee Hollaar) writes:
>> I can become the lawful owner of a copyrighted work without any
>> exchange of consideration. It's called a gift.
>
>But then copyright does not apply. If I write a letter with a poem in
>it to you, you are not allowed to pass it on to somebody else without
>my permission. If I _sell_ a letter with a poem in it to you, you
>are.
Wrong, again.
Copyright always applies in the United States for works that have been
fixed in a tangible medium of expression. It has NOTHING to do with
sale. A work is still protected by copyright, even if I find it in
the street.
If I am the lawful owner of a copy of a letter, perhaps because it
was sent to me, then I can tranfer my ownership to another without
the permission of the writer. That's what 17 USC 109 says.
But I am not the owner of the copyright in the letter, and cannot
make reproductions of it (nor perform it in public) unless I have
the permission of the copyright owner or I fall within one of the
statutory exceptions.
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, (continued)
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Lee Hollaar, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Lee Hollaar, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code,
Lee Hollaar <=
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Ernest Schaal, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Lee Hollaar, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Lee Hollaar, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29