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- From: hes@unity.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.221653.6616@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1993Jan7.123025.19069@husc3.harvard.edu> <MIB.93Jan7152945@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan7.202709.19083@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:16:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.202709.19083@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- > ... A copyright is a temporary, exclusive
- ^^^^^^^^^
- >legal right, which entitles its owner to produce, publish, and sell
- >copies of his original work. As such, copyright attaches to the work,
- >and not to any specific copy thereof. ...
-
- I think that this statement is at the heart of the disagreement.
- It isn't clear to me that copyright is "exclusive", but the example
- I have in mind isn't exactly relevant to the software issue. Still
- it is a copyright example:
-
- Author A writes a poem and owns the copyright. Editor B includes
- the poem (by permission, and with copyright notice attached) in a
- collection of poetry and owns a copyright on the book as a
- collection. Performer C buys a copy of the book and wants to
- read the poem as a paid performance. C must get permission from
- both A and B. Therefore the poem is "covered" by two copyrights
- simultaneously. However if C obtains a copy of the poem which
- was published other than in the book, then B's permission is not
- necessary. In this case there can be different copies of the
- poem which are treated differently with respect to needed
- permission(s) and possibly with respect to license terms.
-
- Am I representing the poem copyright situation correctly?
-
- Is this analogous to any part of the FSF license question?
-
- --henry schaffer
-