On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 02:23  pm, Matthew J Craven wrote:

>> Only if he has not sold/copied/gave 1 copy away , after either has
>> happened he owes regardless
>
> Obviously!
>
>> And if they where bothered , they would sue for each amount they could
>> have made+their charges to Sue
>
> Indeed, they could.

No they could not. Let's just get one thing straight - Amstrad have 
already made a public statement that the Spectrum ROM may be copied 
freely for use in zero-cost Spectrum emulators. They could, in theory, 
revoke that right tomorrow, but they can't sue for anything done under 
the terms of the existing agreement.

>> So taking the second option is 2 late after you have commited the act
>> , soz . but thats law

Yes, it would be too late to not pay if I had copied copyrighted 
material without permission, but that isn't what's going on here.

Andrew

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