Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > British courts, for instance, have held that copying a program into > RAM for the purposes of executing it is a right reserved under > copyright law. In the US, 17 USC 117(c) and (d) were added after a > court held (in MAI Sys. Corp. v. Peak Computer) that a computer repair > company violated copyright of software that automatically started on a > computer it was asked to repair -- by simply allowing the computer to > boot and execute that program automatically. > > As the GPL itself notes, you are not required to accept it, but > nothing else grants you the right to perform actions reserved to > copyright holders with respect to the work.
I think that most countries will grant some right to the purchaser of a physical copy of copyrighted material. For example, I doubt there are countries where it is prohibited to read a book you have bought (via a channel authorized by the copyright holder) when it contains no explicit license granting you the right to read it. -- David Kastrup
