On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:20:29PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > _MAI Systems v. Peak Computer_ (991 F.2d 511) says otherwise. To quote > part: "The district court's grant of a summary judgment on MAI's claims of > copyright infringement reflects its conclusion that a 'copying' for > purposes of copyright law occurs when a program is transferred from a > permanent storage device to a computer's RAM. This conclusion is > consistent with its finding, in granting the preliminary injunction, that: > 'the loading of copyrighted software from a storage medium (hard disk, > floppy disk, or read only memory) into the memory of a central processing > unit ("CPU") causes a copy to be made. In the absence of ownership of the > copyright or express permission by license, such acts constitute copyright > infringement.' We find that this conclusion is supported by the record > and the law." Holy shit, I think we may just have seen John Galt's first useful post to a Debian mailing list _ever_. Congratulations, second assistant bookkeeper[1]! [1] If you got that reference, you should consider joining RA[2]. [2] If you got the original reference, should have no trouble figuring out what that acronym expands to. -- G. Branden Robinson | Intellectual property is neither Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual nor property. branden@debian.org | Discuss. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Linda Richman
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