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Re: Effect of transfer of copyright on free software licenses?


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: Effect of transfer of copyright on free software licenses?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:12:45 -0400
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Rjack wrote:
Activist federal judges who ignore Congress's clear statutory language
in favor of "common sense" have a habit of being quickly overturned on
appeal.

Before the Betamax case, one would have thought that making
videotape copies of TV shows was prima facie copyright violation.
Don't be so sure over what happens on appeal. Remember Jacobson v.
Katzer.


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