Brendan Hide scripsit: > The first two books I pick up from the shelves: > The Concise Oxford Dictionary, reads: > "(c) Oxford University Press 1999 > > Database right Oxford University Press (makers) > First published 1999 > > All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, > [remainder snipped]
[second example snipped] > These look like licenses to me. They're not. They are warnings that the standard rights of copyright owners are reserved. A license includes a grant of rights: these notices are anti-licenses that don't grant anything. But as owner of a lawful copy, you still have lots of rights, just not the five standard copyright rights. > You're also supposed to get fair use rights, of course. I forgot to > mention that I'm South African and that my experience of US law is > limited to cliché television programs (and reading the license-discuss > list). ZA is a signatory to the international copyright treaties, so its law is pretty well aligned with everyone else's. It may differ in the question of copyright terms, moral rights, etc. > I should have said "do anything beyond the rights given to you by fair > use law" rather than use. You are misusing the term "fair use". Anyway, the ZA legal term is "fair dealing". > Does this mean that, if I don't read the license for MS Windows XP (I > haven't and never will - I refuse to install such a trojan), and I let > my 8-year-old sister click on "Agree", that I can reverse-engineer > Windows XP? In South Africa, the receipt would count for diddly squat. Minors can't make valid agreements. Not reading a license does not relieve you of it, any more than trying to walk out of a store with something is legal if you haven't read the price tag. > You can't make a "backup" copy unless the license specifically says so. This is a matter of local law, and may be true in ZA. -- Her he asked if O'Hare Doctor tidings sent from far John Cowan coast and she with grameful sigh him answered that www.ccil.org/~cowan O'Hare Doctor in heaven was. Sad was the man that word www.reutershealth.com to hear that him so heavied in bowels ruthful. All [EMAIL PROTECTED] she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay. _Ulysses_, "Oxen" -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
