Received: by 10.181.11.234 with SMTP id el10mr2324374wid.2.1349164981628; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Path: q11ni127538580wiw.1!nntp.google.com!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed101.telia.com!starscream.dk.telia.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alexander Terekhov Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,misc.int-property Subject: Re: [upcoming] The European Court of Justice on 'Software' First Sale Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:01:41 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <506A9F65.9D70900D@web.de> References: <4F511210.98A94E19@web.de> <4F512D61.78428622@web.de> <5061DB87.F156838C@web.de> <86d318x49w.fsf@gray.siamics.net> <5065832F.12351CF9@web.de> <506955A9.FCB1B19@web.de> Reply-To: terek...@web.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3026d21335b9ab018b14c357261dfd21"; logging-data="11678"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18W26H4LaKalAF2nDrmxPJTtDG8TASv6Y0=" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Cancel-Lock: sha1:7ZQyUxvO+mxJvTu73X4UIAYtImA= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Jackson wrote: [...] > There's only one way that someone can get such a right to further > copies: from the copyleft licence, with all its conditions. Thus the > copyleft licence is not rendered impotent. At most it would be a license contract breach, not tort (copyright infringement) because the licensee who made 'further' copies made it within the scope of licensed *reproduction* right (no 'conditions' at all having nothing to do with copyleft 'conditions' for distribution of copies made) and owns the copies made... hence doctrine of exhaustion regarding distribution right shields licensee against copyright infringement claims. What is so hard to understand here?