On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:18:37PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Andrew Suffield: > > > Termination for non-compliance, in a publically redistributed work, is > > just a reflection of copyright law; it doesn't really change what you > > can and can't do. > > We now have a (lower) German court ruling that this isn't the case, > i.e. that the termination clause is effective and you can't just get > another copy of the same work. It's rather surprising because it > conflicts with our equivalent of the first-sale doctrine
Yes, this is in conflict with basic notions of copyright in most of the world; I would hope that it gets overturned. It can only lead to insanity unless the conflict is corrected - and doing so by adjusting copyright law to fit would finally create a society where Stallman's "right to read" essay has been fulfilled. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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