Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Any piracy statistics in the US ?? Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 14:16:06 GMT Article-I.D.: mantis.J6J641w164w References: <1991Jun25.211142.514@kithrup.COM> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 23 sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: > In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a * > >The "fine print" is not legally binding in the UK. I actually own the > >software I have bought, regardless of what any shrink-wrap license may say. > > You do? Does that mean you can go into business selling copies of whatever > software you've bought? No, because that's breach of copyright. > Oh, so you *don't* own the software! Yes, I do; I just don't have the right to make copies of it bar what is permitted under "fair use" guidelines. In a similar way, I own my TV set; but I would not be allowed to create *exact duplicates* and sell them. (Although in that case it would be because of patents rather than copyrights.) mathew