On 12/21/2010 1:26 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
You're in denial, Hyman.
No, you just fail to read and understand.
http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/550/550.F2d.1180.76-1141.html defendant's sale of the comics did not constitute copyright infringement
> since plaintiffs had engaged in a first sale of the comics. The court so > held even though there was a contract between the distributor and the > wholesaler that the wholesaler would dispose of the comics "for no other > purpose than waste paper". Sure. The defendants didn't do any copying, and the first sale doctrine did away with restrictions on redistribution.
The pivotal issue was whether the copies sold by the defendant were
> copies which had been the subject of a first sale, thereby terminating > their statutory protection: Wells was decided before the language of "lawfully made under this title" was law. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
