[Coco] New Copyright decision

[James Hrubik]

There are times I wish I were a lawyer.  In this instance, I see the  
potential for a bunch of class actions alleging fraud : software  
vendor sold me the goods but did not explain that I could not do  
anything with it.

Ah, to be 40 years younger.

On Sep 20, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> FTA:
>
> "As software developers and computer scientists should be well aware,
> if you consider a digital copy to count as a “copy” — and it is clear
> that the law regards that as a copy just as much as physical storage
> media or a printout counts as a copy — this means you probably cannot
> legally install the software (making a copy on your hard drive) or run
> it (making a copy in memory) at all, without explicit permission from
> the copyright holder. All you can do is admire the installation CD.
> The time has come that users really need to start reading those
> license agreements with a discriminating eye. At this point, we might
> even need to have lawyers read the more complex EULAs for us before we
> start using the software, to ensure that just by installing and using
> it we do not subject ourselves to legal liability."
>
> this is yet another consequence of a legal system that doesn't
> understand the issues at hand.  it seems the courts rarely grasp the
> ramifications of the decisions they make when it comes to computer
> related issues.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Bruce W. Calkins
> <brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:
>> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1813&tag=nl.e101
>>

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