Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. | From | (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) | Date | Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:41:08 +0100 |
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"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes:
> If the law allowed you to give your software away for free and > then put restrictions on use, you could drop copies of a poem from an > airplane (or put it up on a billboard) and then demand royalties from > everyone who read it.
No. Copyright does not cover reading. It covers the distribution of copies (and derived works) of works. You could just fine drop copies of a poem from an airplain and then demand royalties from everoyone who distributes additional copies of it (copies they made, not the copies you dropped, cf. the doctrine of first sale).
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