Re: [libusb] QNX support

[Kustaa N. <Kus...@pl...>]

>Only due to other provisions (such as the first-sale doctrine), not because
>copyright doesn't cover distribution (because it does).

Copyright, as far as I understand from discussion with lawyers on a copyright
course I attended, applies to copying AND distribution; the hard part for me
was to understand that the word 'AND' means that it is perfectly okey to copy
if you do not distribute and it is perfectly okey to distribute if you do not
copy. The first one is the bases of the right to copy for personal use and
the other part is pretty much given, if the copyright holder could control
distribution by itself then sales of copyrighted material would pretty much
impossible in practice.



>No, it's not that simple. If I'm writing a magazine and the software is a
>review copy, for instance, I can't sell the software on the computer.

Why you think so? If you sell the computer you are not making a copy. Just like
a book or painting or CD or DVD, definitely copyrighted material but no-one
can stop you from selling them.


>If the software is my employer's internal software, I can't sell the computer
>(even if my job contract doesn't stipulate this explicitly). If I warezed the
>software and as such didn't have rights to it in the first place, I can't
>sell the computer with the warezed software on. And so on.

That is a different scenario because there you made a copy in the first place
and probably illegal copy if it was warezed.

cheers Kusti




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