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> If you get an "all rights reserved" program, are you allowed to run it? Only if you have a license... otherwise that's piracy... > What part of copyright la

> If you get an "all rights reserved" program, are you allowed to run it? Only if you have a license... otherwise that's piracy... > What part of copyright law gives the copyright holder any power What exactly are you installing, if not a copy?

josephcsible 4y ago
> What exactly are you installing, if not a copy? That's a copy, but installing it on your own computer isn't distribution.
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- torstenvl 4y ago
  You say that as if it matters. It does not. Copyright is the exclusive right to copy; the exclusive right to create derivative works; and the exclusive right to distribute the copy or derivative work. 17 U.S.C. § 106. If you do not have a license from a copyright holder, you may not copy the software to your computer (or anywhere else), you may not modify it, and you may not distribute the original or any modifications. Doing any of those without a license is software piracy. (Note, however, that once properly licensed software is on your storage device, copying it into RAM or otherwise copying it "as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program" is always permitted. 17 U.S.C. § 117.)
  - josephcsible 4y ago
    Hasn't it been established that the copying necessary to run a program on your own computer is covered by fair use?
    - torstenvl 4y ago
      No.