Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:42:38 -0500 |
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:20:41 +0100, Arjan van de Ven said: > > 5) There is no right under copyright for authors of original works to limit > > the distribution of lawfully-created derivative works to those with the > > right to use the original work. > > this is not correct. Copyright law *DOES* give copyright owners the > right to control derived works.
He quite clearly said "*lawfully-created* derivative works".
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000106----000-.html
quite clearly says that the right to *produce* a derivative work can be controlled by the copyright holder (17 USC 106(2)) but nothing in 17 USC 106 says that the copyright holder can control the distribution of an *already-authorized* derivative work.
IANAL and all that.... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |