Re:"Magic Words" Trump User Rights: Ninth Circuit Ruling in ...
by aidenn0 on Monday September 13, 2010 @06:05PM
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Couldn't you just sell "a bunch of shiny plastic discs that may or may not have software on them" and not run into this issue? I'm assuming these discs were printed by Autodesk. Copyright doesn't apply if you're not making a copy of anything, right?
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Re:"Magic Words" Trump User Rights: Ninth Circuit Ruling in ...
by dctoedt on Monday September 13, 2010 @07:14PM
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Unless the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine applies, under copyright law you're not allowed to distribute copies without permission from the copyright owner. See 17 USC 106(3), at http://goo.gl/ySAs.