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"Chattels and software - a thought exercise Authored by: swmcd on Tuesday, October 13 2009 @ 02:55 PM EDT I'm completely lost. "First sale works great with books. You can't run off a million copies of a book in ten minutes and distribute over the Internet." You can scan it and post it, which has substantially the same effect. "Software isn't a book. [...] And to do its thing, you need a use license. " No, you need 17 U.S.C. ยง 117 "it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make [...] another copy [...] provided: (1) that such a new copy [...] is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine " P.J. says "Vendors will never sell you software if you get to resell it without the license. And with first sale, the license dies as to that copy. And that copy can be duplicated a million times in minutes and distributed over the Internet. " Well, not legally, it can't. You need permission of the copyright holder do that. " <chuckles> regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss