POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Copying isn't theft : Re: Copying isn't theft Server Time
29 Sep 2024 11:23:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Copying isn't theft  
From: Darren New
Date: 12 May 2009 22:03:28
Message: <4a0a2a70@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> John VanSickle wrote:
>> "Copyright" means the *exclusive* right to make copies. 
> 
> No it doesn't. It means the non-exclusive right to prevent other people 
> from making copies.  Look it up. :-)

In particular, that's why you can have the DVD release of a movie held up by 
either the studio or the musicians, if the contracts aren't clear. Both 
parties have a copyright on the item, and one or the other isn't letting the 
other one make copies.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!


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