Charging the net...

[CNEWS MUST DIE!]

thomson at hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson) writes:
> In article <4RuD24w164w at mantis.co.uk> mathew at mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
> ><1991May2.180616.26542 at eci386.uucp> woods at eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) writes
> >>   2.  Acts not constituting infringement of Copyright.
> >>   ....
> >>   (l) the making by a person who owns a copy of a computer
> >>   programme, which copy is authorized by the owner of the
> >>   copyright, [...]
[...]
> I think you have misread the statute.
> It does not require that "ownership of the copy" be authorized, but that
> the copy be authorized.
> That is, the copy must have been created with the consent of the copyright
> holder.

Right. And the copyright holder is stating that he does not give consent to
copies being made unless the person to whom the copies are given agrees to
abide by the conditions of ownership.


mathew