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if you wanna get into byte copying, from a legal view, isn't also copying from disk to memory a copy of the book then ?
by _kidlike 2y ago
if you wanna get into byte copying, from a legal view, isn't also copying from disk to memory a copy of the book then ?
- codedokode 2y agoThe law says that copy is something that is "fixed" on a tangible medium. DRAM might not fall under that definition.
- pie_flavor 2y agoIt does if the copy is "more than transitory". Software in RAM is a full copy and remains there as long as the program runs, so that can be an unlicensed copy per MAI v Peak (but if you had a license to the original, there's an explicit legal carveout for RAM copies). It would depend on how far the data is buffered and how long it is cached.
- anonymousab 2y agoYes, and that's why running an executable can technically be copyright infringement. This came up in some anticheat lawsuits.
- account42 2y agoWhich is an absurd position. It's not far removed from sayng that reading something and committing it to memory is an act of copying.