24 Oct
2010
24 Oct
'10
9:47 a.m.
On 24 Oct 2010 at 10:55, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:29 AM, "Bob Bradlee"
<caveguy at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
Indeed, "Fair Use" as currently interpreted by US Courts is extremely
narrow, mostly limited to excerpting small parts of works for
educational purposes.
In fact, there's been a very recent decision that one may not sell
software that one has legally acquired if the license forbids sale to
a third party. ISTR that the case involved Autodesk and a vendor
selling old copies of AutoCAD after the original owners had upgraded.
I don't know the appeal status of this last case; but a little web
searching will surely turn up more.
--Chuck
Fair use should
premit a collector to play with it for their personal use.
I don't know where you got this idea. There is no such thing as Fair
Use as far as software licenses are concerned.