Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > When I execute a program, this is not a distribution. When I allow > > others to execute it, I distribute it -- even if there is no actual > > copying of bits between magnetic media. > > Actually, it's not clear that this is true. For example, technically a > CD player "makes a copy" of a CD into its internal memory in order to > play the music encoded upon it. This is not considered to be "copying" > because this copy is required in order to gain access to the copyrighted > work you supposedly paid for when you bought the CD. In other words, > playing a CD is a "fair use" copying right, and I can execute that right > whether I'm the person who plunked down $20 for the particular CD or > not.
"Fair use" normally means the copying of an excerpt from a work for the purposes of criticism, teaching, etc. I think the "copy" made by a CD player is not copying at all as far as most copyright law is concerned, but I don't have a definition of copying to hand. You should probably compare a CD player's transient copy with home video recording, or copying a CD onto tape so that you can listen to it in a car, or making a back-up copy of a tape, all of which are are allowed in most countries, as far as I know. Edmund -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]