Re: RES: What makes software copyrightable anyway?
Raul Miller writes:
> On 5/17/05, Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> wrote:
>> A court can rule on whether a contract permits or forbids an action
>> without addressing the question of what the action later implies.
>
> I agree.
>
> Then again, as an example of a copyright case where
> contract law was held to be irrelevant, consider Huston v. La
> Cinq Cass. civ. 1re (28 May 1991).
Hm, so a French court could claim jurisdiction over a case where a
modification is made to free software that the original software's
author opposed and the modified work is distributed in France.
Was your point that significant use of free software is untenable in
continental Europe, or that droit d'auteur is distinct from the more
economic parts of copyright (the parts the GPL addresses)?
Michael Poole
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