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Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf] by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @01:48PM (#7945590)
Can you cite a case at the appellate level that justifies copyright licensing on the basis of ephemeral copies in memory?
Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf] by andrewschleifer on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @02:13PM (#7945744)
Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf] by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @02:43PM (#7945942)
So according to Wikipedia there is a specific statute that expressly disavows the notion that someone who bought a copy of a computer program would infringe by running it (17 USC 117), the court found that a repair tech wasn't the owner of the copy so the statute didn't apply, and Congress immediately passed another law reversing the effect of the court's decision.

I guess that's technically what I asked for, but I don't think pointing out the existence of that statute does much for the argument that you need a separate license to run a computer program you paid for.

Let's try this again: Can you cite a relevant case that hasn't subsequently been invalidated?