David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Copyright law only _explicitly_ grants a monopoly on preparation of >>derivative works. However, it is trivial, and overwhelmingly common, >>for a copyright owner to grant a license to create a derivative work >>that is conditional on how the licensee agrees to distribute (or not >>distribute) the derivative work. > > This would, of course, only make sense if you *had* to agree to the license > to *create* the derivative work. If you were able to create the derivative > work under first sale or fair use rights, then the restrictions in the > contract would not apply to you.
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