Hyman Rosen wrote:
On 3/10/2010 3:03 PM, RJack wrote:
The Copyright Act's "pass-through permissions" provision eh?
No, the license's pass-through permission.
The Copyright Act gives rights holders the exclusive right to
authorize others to copy and distribute covered works.
Yep you're right.
The Act just doesn't authorize *non-rights* holders to authorize others
to copy and distribute covered works. It seems that the pesky word
"exclusive" keeps getting in the way of "pass-through permissions".
The license expresses how the rights holders choose to grant this
authorization.
Yeah... except there's no right to authorize others to authorize.
You're seeing double when you read 17 USC sec. 106.
Sincerely,
RJack :)
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