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No it doesn't. Base copyright is not an EULA, it doesn't govern how someone legally in possession of a copy uses that copy. By your argument every single person
by xoa 4y ago
No it doesn't. Base copyright is not an EULA, it doesn't govern how someone legally in possession of a copy uses that copy. By your argument every single person in history with a book who made notes in the margin or crossed words or the like is a copyright infringer. Worse if they subsequently sold that book at a used book sale.
Copyright is about distribution.
- charcircuit 4y agoIt prevents people from creating derivative works. To quote US law. "A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications, which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a “derivative work”."