[Coco] New Copyright decision

[Aaron Wolfe]

FTA:

"As software developers and computer scientists should be well aware,
if you consider a digital copy to count as a “copy” — and it is clear
that the law regards that as a copy just as much as physical storage
media or a printout counts as a copy — this means you probably cannot
legally install the software (making a copy on your hard drive) or run
it (making a copy in memory) at all, without explicit permission from
the copyright holder. All you can do is admire the installation CD.
The time has come that users really need to start reading those
license agreements with a discriminating eye. At this point, we might
even need to have lawyers read the more complex EULAs for us before we
start using the software, to ensure that just by installing and using
it we do not subject ourselves to legal liability."

this is yet another consequence of a legal system that doesn't
understand the issues at hand.  it seems the courts rarely grasp the
ramifications of the decisions they make when it comes to computer
related issues.


On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Bruce W. Calkins
<brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1813&tag=nl.e101
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