We should find a lawyer and ask these questions about Copyright in Iran . I will try to find someone . If you know someone please invite him to join this group.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ebadat A.R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Behdad Esfahbod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Persian Computing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2004/03/05 07:15 PM Subject: Re: Dictionaries on the web > On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:53, Ebadat A.R. wrote: > > > > Buying a > > > > software means you are getting license to use this software as it is. > > There > > > > is no license for presenting this software on the web. > > > > > > But we are not talking about software here. Information is different > > > from software. It really depends on how you define software. Is an MS > > > Word document software? > > > > When you are talking about MS Word document, you mean a document that you > > wrote before. Is it possible to use MS Word Spell Checker in your website? > > If you check the license agreement of MS word, you can see that you have no > > permission to use this part of MS Word except in this software. > > We were not talking about software or software features here. Let's say > you buy a CD that contains some poems from Khayyam. Are you not allowed > to provide that *information* (poems from Khayyam) on your website? > > > when you buy a software you should check the License > > Agreement . > > That is right. If it has a license agreement of course. > > > You have permission based on License Agreement and if you don't > > accept this agreement , you are not allowed to install and use this > > software. When you install this software , it means you agree with License > > Agreement . > > That is not true. Who says that? Is there a law in Iran saying that? No, > there is not. If you want to prove that someone has agreed to something > without anyone being present there, you should show her/his signature. > > Lemme make an example: I go buy a software from a shop. I want to > install and use the software. In the license, it says that "You may not > use or install this software if your father is a Muslim, even if you > have paid for it". My father is a muslim, but I see that I really need > to run the software. So I click "I agree", and continue. The software > gets installed, I use it, no one gets harmed, end of story. > > Have I agreed/confirmed that my father is not a muslim? No! I did > something with my computer at my home. I did not break any laws (there > is no law about clicking). I did not break any contracts (a contract > without a signature is not valid), I did not ... > > If I buy a chair and there is a big nail on the seat with a note that > "you may not sit on this chair if you are born in Tehran, and by > removing this nail you agree that your are not born there", may I sit on > the chair, or should I return it to the vendor instead, saying "Oh, > you've given me the shahrestani-only chair. Would you please change it > for me, or return me the money?" > > License Agreement does not have any legal backing in Iran (there are > claims that it doesn't have the backing in US or other countries > either). But copyright does. > > > Anyway, I think , License Agreement is the most important piece of a package > > or software. > > Honestly, license agreements are not applicable in Iran (and many other > countries). License Agreements may be important if you live in US and > some other countries, but don't have a case in Iran. In Iran, you only > have the copyright law. > > roozbeh > > _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
