Xref: utzoo misc.legal:25869 alt.sources.d:1792 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) Newsgroups: misc.legal,alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Charging the net... Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 12:23:25 GMT References: <1991May6.110052.11870@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 23 thomson@hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson) writes: > In article <4RuD24w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes: > ><1991May2.180616.26542@eci386.uucp> woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) writes > >> 2. Acts not constituting infringement of Copyright. > >> .... > >> (l) the making by a person who owns a copy of a computer > >> programme, which copy is authorized by the owner of the > >> copyright, [...] [...] > I think you have misread the statute. > It does not require that "ownership of the copy" be authorized, but that > the copy be authorized. > That is, the copy must have been created with the consent of the copyright > holder. Right. And the copyright holder is stating that he does not give consent to copies being made unless the person to whom the copies are given agrees to abide by the conditions of ownership. mathew