Copyright

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:33:13 -0500
Kelly Leavitt <CCTalk at catcorner.org> wrote:

> > From: Barry Watzman [mailto:Watzman at neo.rr.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:40 PM
> > To: cctech at classiccmp.org
> > Subject: Re: Copyright
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> > Second, a  book can be
> > used without also, in the process, making a copy of it, while
> > use of software, by definition, also requires making a copy of
> > the software.
> 
> Uh, not always so...
> 
> I have plenty of software that runs directly off CD. I'm not
> making a copy of it to run it. Unless you're implying the
> process of reading it into memory to execute is copying it. IMHO
> that's a mighty fine line.

Reading it into memory is copying it.  Lawyers make a bunch of
their money due to fine lines.