Copyright

[Tony Duell]

> > 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.
> 

Does this imply that software in ROM does not need to be copied (in the 
legal sense) when it's run, but cashing the ROM would consitute a copy? 
Or does copying each byte in turn into an internal processor register 
count as a 'copy'..

And what is the difference between copying a program (from disk, say) 
into a computer's memory, and copying part of a book into _my_ memory 
(e.g. learning something from a book). For that matter, what is the 
difference between a computer executing a program and me 'executing' a 
recipe from a cookery book?

-tony