Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > I'm shocked by Amici's citation of Nimmer on Copyright talking about > > "appropriate contractual provisions" and "appropriate contract > > construction"... What!? I thought that licenses are not contracts in > > "free as in free speech" world. > > Perhaps you would be less shocked if you quoted in context? > After the quote from Nimmer about contractual conditions, > the brief states > > "Nimmer ... support the proposition that a copyright > licensor may recover in copyright for violations of > a license condition ..."
Hint: Suppose that a copyright license of mine states that: *Before* you make use of my exclusive right(s) you must tell the world that I am "Alexander The Great and Powerful." That is a license condition (violation of which I may recover in copyright.) Got it now? regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
