On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:44:08 +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote... > > Alexander Terekhov <terek...@web.de> wrote: > > > > >Thus copies made under copyleft (and other public licenses) fall under > > >exhaustion doctrine preventing copyright owners (licensors) using tort > > >theory (copyright infringement claims) regarding control of terms and > > >conditions for further distribution.
You are talking here about European law - it's a decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union. [snip] > That might be true IF "she doesn't have any right to act at all except > as the license permits." But as I have pointed out here and in my > comments to the FSF regarding the new GPLv3, that is not the case. > United States copyright law provides a number of exceptions to the > exclusive rights of the copyright owner, including "first sale" as > covered in 17 U.S.C. 109 and the right in 17 U.S.C. 117 of the owner > of a copy of a computer to reproduce or adapt it if necessary to use > it. How much bearing do you think 17 U.S.C. has on European law? -- Tim Jackson news@timjackson.invalid (Change '.invalid' to '.plus.com' to reply direct) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
