"In that case, please give an example of what you do consider an affirmative right."
For example, - rights that are enumerated in the Bill of Rights, such as relating to free speech; - various rights relating to ownership of physical property. -- Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:34 AM To: Peterson, Scott K (HP Legal) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The Copyright Act preempts the GPL Peterson, Scott K (HP Legal) scripsit: > If, when impeded in some way from undertaking one of the actions > exclusive to the copyright holder, a copyright holder could go to > court and use the copyright rights to overcome the impediment - that > would be an exercise of an affirmative right. In that case, please give an example of what you do consider an affirmative right. > As I am not aware of an example of a copyright holder exercising a > right in such a way, I continue to find it most helpful to think of > copyright as a negative right. No one can quarrel with what it is that you find most helpful. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
