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Copyright law allows a copyright owner to license their copyrighted work to others, and also to put restrictions on how the licensed work can be used. This is

Copyright law allows a copyright owner to license their copyrighted work to others, and also to put restrictions on how the licensed work can be used. This is why if you write a book, you can license it to a publisher to print copies of it and sell for profit without them automatically gaining the right to adapt your book into a movie.

adrr 3y ago
Thats not copyright works. How its used is a EULA or service agreement. Your example shows this. A distributor has no rights to distribute a copyright under copyright law, you grant him those rights for something into return. A copyright license can not tell me how i use a copyrighted work outside of act of making a copy. What AGPL is saying that you're distributing their IP because it exposes an API or a GUI which is they claim that its their IP thus subjected to copyright law. Once i have a legal of copy of code, i can do anything i want to it even if the copyright license forbids it as long as i don't distribute the code. I can make as many private copies as i want and deploy it on as many servers as i want without trigger copyright law.
- pritambaral 3y ago
  What you say only makes sense in the world where printing presses have only just been invented. Copyright law, today, does not restrict only the "act of making a copy". It restricts a whole lot of things. E.g., display, adaptation, performance — hell, even translation. For example, under US law, a copyright holder is expressly allowed "to determine and decide how, and under what conditions, the work may be marketed, publicly displayed, reproduced, distributed, etc." And this is just from the list of "Economic rights". Copyright also includes sth it calls "Moral rights" which has nothing to do with copies being made. If you post on Xitter claiming you wrote the LOTR books, you are technically in infringement of the moral rights of J.R.R Tolkien. ---- When you say, "I can do anything I want to it even if the copyright license forbids it as long as I don't distribute the code", you are very conveniently (and illegally) ignoring the copyright holder's exclusive right to control how their work is displayed or performed.
  - adrr 3y ago
    When you say, "I can do anything I want to it even if the copyright license forbids it as long as I don't distribute the code", you are very conveniently (and illegally) ignoring the copyright holder's exclusive right to control how their work is displayed or performed. -- If that were the case. Movie rental videos wouldn't exist. Neither would libraries. Like i said you have to make a copy for the a copy right license to come into play.

adrr 3y ago

Thats not copyright works. How its used is a EULA or service agreement. Your example shows this. A distributor has no rights to distribute a copyright under copyright law, you grant him those rights for something into return. A copyright license can not tell me how i use a copyrighted work outside of act of making a copy. What AGPL is saying that you're distributing their IP because it exposes an API or a GUI which is they claim that its their IP thus subjected to copyright law. Once i have a legal of copy of code, i can do anything i want to it even if the copyright license forbids it as long as i don't distribute the code. I can make as many private copies as i want and deploy it on as many servers as i want without trigger copyright law.

pritambaral 3y ago
What you say only makes sense in the world where printing presses have only just been invented. Copyright law, today, does not restrict only the "act of making a copy". It restricts a whole lot of things. E.g., display, adaptation, performance — hell, even translation. For example, under US law, a copyright holder is expressly allowed "to determine and decide how, and under what conditions, the work may be marketed, publicly displayed, reproduced, distributed, etc." And this is just from the list of "Economic rights". Copyright also includes sth it calls "Moral rights" which has nothing to do with copies being made. If you post on Xitter claiming you wrote the LOTR books, you are technically in infringement of the moral rights of J.R.R Tolkien. ---- When you say, "I can do anything I want to it even if the copyright license forbids it as long as I don't distribute the code", you are very conveniently (and illegally) ignoring the copyright holder's exclusive right to control how their work is displayed or performed.
- adrr 3y ago
  When you say, "I can do anything I want to it even if the copyright license forbids it as long as I don't distribute the code", you are very conveniently (and illegally) ignoring the copyright holder's exclusive right to control how their work is displayed or performed. -- If that were the case. Movie rental videos wouldn't exist. Neither would libraries. Like i said you have to make a copy for the a copy right license to come into play.