Re: possible GPL violation by Free

From: Måns Rullgård
Date: Sun Oct 10 2004 - 21:26:22 EST


"David Schwartz" <davids@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In any event, it seems pretty obvious to me that renting a
> physical medium that contains an encoded copyrighted work is a form of
> distribution of that work. The operation of that physical device is as
> much a derived work of the copyrighted work as the visual/audio
> experience of seeing a play is a derived work of the script for the
> play.

Are you sure it's not a performance?

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxx

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