From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 8 11:55:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24084 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:55:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24079 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:55:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00371; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:55:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd000336; Tue Sep 8 11:55:38 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04657; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:55:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809081855.LAA04657@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 6 days to C-DAY To: oppermann@pipeline.ch (Andre Oppermann) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:55:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: ben@rosengart.com, mike@smith.net.au, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <35F52638.88AF77C5@pipeline.ch> from "Andre Oppermann" at Sep 8, 98 02:42:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The only problem I can see is the new US copyright law; it's no longer > allowed to have/produce/sell technologie that enables you copy/analyse/ > modify copyrighted work. Utter bilge. What isn't allowed is use of a copyrighted work in violation of license, which, in the case of software, generally disallows disassembly or reverse engineering, where such restrictions may be enforced (ie: in Germany, you can disassemble the code anyway, to document interfaces, but you can't use the code in your own work). Musical works are not licensed (generally, unless you are a movie studio, a rapper who wants to leech off a Queen song, or a 16 year old girl who can't write her own songs, etc.), they are published, instead. Generally, production of songs on CD's is licensed to record producers, who then sell into a market for which things like "First North American Publishing Rights" have been contractually given. Once you have a CD, however, you own it. Just like a book, where the publisher has been granted "First North American Publishing Rights". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message