Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:55:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: oppermann@pipeline.ch (Andre Oppermann) Cc: ben@rosengart.com, mike@smith.net.au, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 6 days to C-DAY Message-ID: <199809081855.LAA04657@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <35F52638.88AF77C5@pipeline.ch> from "Andre Oppermann" at Sep 8, 98 02:42:32 pm
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> The only problem I can see is the new US copyright law; it's no longer > allowed to have/produce/sell technologie that enables you copy/analyse/ > modify copyrighted work. Utter bilge. What isn't allowed is use of a copyrighted work in violation of license, which, in the case of software, generally disallows disassembly or reverse engineering, where such restrictions may be enforced (ie: in Germany, you can disassemble the code anyway, to document interfaces, but you can't use the code in your own work). Musical works are not licensed (generally, unless you are a movie studio, a rapper who wants to leech off a Queen song, or a 16 year old girl who can't write her own songs, etc.), they are published, instead. Generally, production of songs on CD's is licensed to record producers, who then sell into a market for which things like "First North American Publishing Rights" have been contractually given. Once you have a CD, however, you own it. Just like a book, where the publisher has been granted "First North American Publishing Rights". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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