On 3/1/2011 8:55 PM, John Levine wrote:
I know just enough about copyright law to know that this claim is
nonsense.
No, it is not nonsense. Copyright law does allow the content creator
to specify duration of use. If you go view a movie in a movie theater
you buy a ticket for a single viewing, you do not automatically get
to view it multiple times just because you bought a ticket.
I think this would be a good time to go look up terms like "fixation",
"first sale", and "fair use" before further embarassing yourself.
Free hint: movie tickets aren't copyright licenses.
R's,
John
I already mentioned fair use in the original post. You are welcome to
argue that if I sent out an e-mail with an expiration on it that if
you overrode that expiration you could do so under Fair Use but I
think you are nuts if you think a court would agree with that.
As far as first sale, that absolutely would apply. If I put an
expiration date on an e-mail you could certainly sell or forward it
or whatever BEFORE the expiration date was hit. But whoever had
the copy of my copyrighted e-mail would still be bound by the
terms of the expiration and would have to expire the mail.
As for fixation, I have no idea why you think the moment of creation
as any relevance to the discussion. An e-mail or post when it is sent
from a computer is fixed.
Please, instead of just randomly selecting terms related to copyright,
why don't you try to make a coherent and logical argument why
expiration dates on copyrighted material are illegal and should be
ignored.
Ted
