-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 05/18/2014 10:31 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 5/18/2014 10:21 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> On 5/19/14, Jerry Stuckle <jstuc...@attglobal.net> wrote: >>> Actually, you have NO RIGHTS. You can do only what the content >>> creators say you can do. >> >> I'm guessing you never quite understood the difference between >> "can" and "may". But hey ... COME ON DOWN SPINNER! The Debian Derby >> continues, and everyone's a winner, baby! > > Yes, I understand the difference. The license I grant you to use my > copyrighted material says what you MAY use it for. Of course, you > CAN use it for something else - but you will be in violation of the > copyright. What is your basis for claiming this? As far as I can see, there is no basis in the law for the claim that copyright grants any control whatsoever over the end user's *use* of the copyrighted thing. Separate contracts can grant such control, but the only leverage the copyright holder has in order to persuade someone to agree to such a contract is the threat to refuse to authorize the creation of a copy. (Or possibly the threat to refuse to create more things in the future, but that would exist even without copyright.) If the copy has already been created and has been transferred to the user (as in the case of, e.g., a physical DVD), and no further copies are going to be created, and the end user has not agreed to a contract limiting their use of the copy, what is there to either limit such use or require them to agree to such a contract? - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTefn1AAoJEASpNY00KDJrXq8P/2CIdE36o4GeEvYPGPGPWD+s 9qvH1Ap+KSc8tN/Y3UKkS2sQgNYAKHURY9urIBWFWCavpnC4ymAGd13WebjymoNZ G05zto7sxQe56KHWOx4HRfcw3LuuDfxo8kX+uaCaqdApErpT0n0clyviuOzJQo3O CvgyneacbtCb5C1LSQfwhWhNErt5j2/d3r9f9fB/TNQDZdyJR7B/m/piprB4Q/KK jYDAt5nF1m/i+BtgldeyNAQP5F6CcQ+xktVMSnoTX+9uWsbzcrRfySBig73bcVwm kzECppSPx6ALvtlvK3kv37YCTl9/Rh0j+dKhzV12IHTFisFXGEGi4dA4OCpvUpCl xeL5OHU2hCqpHqmjcaeNh6jcl7YZyTjYlp6tP+mSMXY3m75AuWN1mpLw0IdJTrDx iFO0luCAE/BwMKOitaSa6YuM3/Q+eiIYMPcsm6mzsn4A0ujab/uRAFR+xtByedo9 rBUv5Hm3PWi6Ld48o830LMXwuU9hz9jdstEnKEor+V5ZpgtaudFBpsX4ddu7cYEX pONS1Qu8f78rS7M4tPv5S9GXnMEoNxSy5L5Vd6J4fuyUL0qUc9MhAKeC+IrqHWhP D06V9Ekg2ZHkRS1MDFN1cY1pfhzjzIXcIrUPk1iJ3NpyRaYQdUR+otm0YOMjGjIP Q5zOygErByPYCHY4AX3A =F3kz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5379f9f5.70...@fastmail.fm
