> Re: [LINK] In other news....

[Rick Welykochy]

Stewart Fist wrote:

> It would be interesting to see what would happen if the author of a book
> took out an injunction to stop a library from holding or lending his book --
> on the grounds that the library (or at least the librarians) are making
> money out of the lending, and that their action is depriving him of rightful
> income from sales.
> 
> I have no idea what the outcome would be.  I doubt that its even been
> tested.  

Think of the GPL. The copyright owner in that case has stipulated
some conditions that proprietary software producers find very unusual:
conditions involving making the source code available as part of the
software licence.

So it goes with any licence one wishes to attach to a work. What
the law provides is simply the default framework in which to
work.

As the copyright holder of a work I produce, say a book, I can
stipulate anything I like as the terms of the licence for use.

I can stipulate that my work cannot be sold in the USA or
Canada (Penguin publishing does this quite often, restricting
and shaping the book market worldwide).

I can stipulate that you must copy out in longhand anything
you read from my book. I can prohibit the work from being
loaned or shared. I can even stipulate that you must be
naked and read the work only on Tuesdays.

If you do not care to abide by the terms of the licence I
offer to you the potential reader then you are free to
bypass my work and move on.


cheers
rickw



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