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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copyright Info (Was: Re: Version 1.3 is out!) (LONG)
Message-ID: <10435@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 88 00:52:25 GMT
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In article <756@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> msiskin@shogun.cc.umich.edu (Marc Siskin) writes:
>One premise that our lawyer has put forth is that a contract supercedes the
>Copyright Law.  So the seller of software can make ANY demands on the use
>of their product and if you buy the product you have to abide by the provisions
>or return the product.  

Depends. Has there been precedent for an unsigned licencing agreement to
be enforceable? It seems to me that if the consumer buys something with
the license on the inside--indeed he may not even know it is there--then
the user has not "agreed" to the terms of the license. In reality, he
has bought a copyrighted product.

Precedents, anyone?

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