----- "Andy Walls" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your responses. > > But according to US Code Title 17 Chapter 1, Section 106, > "distribution to the public" is also an exclusive right: > > http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106 > > (pursuant to amending sections, blah blah blah.) > > So you can't dispose of it *any* way you see fit. I suppose you can > give your copyrighted item to a "non-public" recipient, as long as > you don't keep a copy. > > Wow, playing lawyer involves way too much thought. :)
Yeah, I know; right? :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine So yeah, you really can. The first sentence of 109 is: > Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106(3), the owner of a particular > copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized > by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to > sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord. and therefore specifically overrules that. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
