On Jun 27, 2005, at 7:14 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Isn't this just plain illegal? Since I assume you only once bought
Finale full, and then bought upgrades, you still only have one serial
number. Although you are obviously permitted to run as many different
versions of Finale as you own, I doubt very much that you can give
away an early version of Finale without a separate serial number.
Johannes
Sharing it with another Finale user who ALSO has a legally purchased
license wouldn't be illegal. That person has paid for and is
legitimately allowed to use Finale, too.
Besides, the offer was for someone who was interested in having the
earlier version for historical interest. I doubt anybody on this list
is actually interested in beginning to work with such an earlier
version.
But the legality of one licensed owner sharing the original disks from
an earlier version with another licensed owner shouldn't be an issue.
Now if Andrew were to give them to someone who isn't already a user,
THAT would be illegal, but it's also something I'm sure Andrew
wouldn't even consider doing.
Boy do I have mixed feelings on this. First of all, for what it may be
worth, way back when I upgraded from 2.0.1 to 2.5, I asked Coda whether
I could give my copy of 2.0.1 to a charitable organization, and they
said sure.
However, regardless of that anecdote I must say that to me the
(hypothetical) value of a piece of software as an antique is totally
unrelated to its original value as a productive item. If one of the
folks on this list, for example, were to take their original Finale 1.0
diskette, stick it in liquid nitrogen to preserve it, and later sell it
to a museum, I would regard that as, quite literally, none of
MakeMusic's business, regardless of what the law might say.
If a (once again hypothetical) collector of antique software who had
not previously owned any version of Finale, wanted to add my copy of
FinMac 2.6.3 to their collection, I would donate it without a second's
thought.
I have no idea what the law says on these matters. Morally, I have no
question on this issue at all. None.
Now, if the gift shoppe at the Smithsonian Collection of Historical
Software were to start selling decorative pages of Finale 1.0-generated
music, with those quaint, arched slurs, that *might* be a different
matter. Maybe.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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