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Re: GPL and other licences


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Re: GPL and other licences
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:12:26 +0100

Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
[...]
> Of course they can. The copyright holder most definitely cannot control
> how the software is used (unless there is a contract stipulating
> such), because copyright law doesn't give such rights - it's the right
> to make and distribute copies that is granted to the copyright holder,

The right to distribute authorized copies is statutory. See 17 USC 109
(it is commonly called "first sale", but the actual parameters of the
rule are specified in the statute and not some lay reading of "first",
"sale", or even "first sale"). Over here in the EU, that statutory
doctrine is known as "copyright exhaustion".

http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/feedback/OIIFB_GPL3_20040903.pdf

Note that that Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute is no 
stranger.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoeren

http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/panel/profiles/hoeren.pdf

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