On 2006-09-03, Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Breach of a copyright license is copyright infringement.
Doing an act *which is not licensed* is copyright infringement. If I authorize you to copy my work verbatim, and you change it, you infringe my copyright. Doing a licensed act but failing to comply with conditions is *breach of contract* If I authorize you to copy in return for payment of $1 per copy, and you don't pay, you are in breach of the license. Yet I can only sue you for non-performance and demand the dollar per copy. > If the person does not follow the terms of the license, then I could > not have possibly `licensed him to do the acts'; and thus he can be > sued for copyright infringement. If I say "you are authorized to copy my work, at a fee of $1 per copy", then you are authorized to copy. Non-payment of the fee does not negate the authorization unless and until I terminate the contract for failure to perform on your part. You have a contract, the contract says you have the right to copy, and we're fighting over the obligations the contract imposes upon you. Merijn -- Remove +nospam to reply _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
