RE: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.

David Schwartz
2006-03-09T22:12:53Z

> "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes:

> > If the law allowed you to give your software away for free and
> > then put restrictions on use, you could drop copies of a poem from an
> > airplane (or put it up on a billboard) and then demand royalties from
> > everyone who read it.

> No. Copyright does not cover reading. It covers the distribution of
> copies (and derived works) of works. You could just fine drop copies of
> a poem from an airplain and then demand royalties from everoyone who
> distributes additional copies of it (copies they made, not the copies
> you dropped, cf. the doctrine of first sale).

Why would you say "No" and then write something that 100% agrees with me?

DS