Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: Brian Mueller Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Selling CD-ROMs/Copyright Date: 2 Apr 1994 07:52:25 +0300 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 34 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: Reply-To: Brian Mueller NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-Path: <@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU:brianm@U.WASHINGTON.EDU> Comments: To: Mike Berger Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list CDROM-L To: CDROM-L Redistribution In-Reply-To: <9403311935.AA05486@tolstoy.u.washington.edu> I hate to disagree with you mike, but accoriding to the classes that I have taken in law (keep in mind only three), the law states that when you agree to a set of copyright rules, you are bound to exactly what it states you are able to do. If the rule says that you cannot sell the item, then you cannot sell the item. So if you hypothetical situation of buying a car, and the manual said that you cannot sell the car, then you CANNOT sell the car, or the car company can sue you for breaking the copyright law. As silly this may sound to you, this is the law (as I have been thaught.) brian On Thu, 31 Mar 1994, Mike Berger wrote: > In article <1994Mar30.235652.1904@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>, > |> > It seems to me that it would certainly be illegal to sell any program if > > > > When you opened the package, you agreed to all that small print. Now what > > you do in the real world is up to you. AOL, having deep pockets, doesn't > > want to be sued for "aiding and abetting" you in your terrible crime, thus > > they deleted your post and sent you a nastygram. > *---- > Absolute utter nonsense. You are NOT bound by ALL terms of the license > agreement just because you opened the package. Would you feel compelled > to deliver your firstborn male child if that were part of the shrinkwrap > agreement? > > If your Ford instruction manual said you were prohibited from reselling > your > vehicle, would you be stuck with it for life? Of course not. No software > publisher can impose such a restriction either. >