RE: [dvd-discuss] Postage Meters and the "Right to Tinker"

["Richard Hartman" <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

I got the authority when I got ownership ... which
they gave me as a gift.


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Zulauf [mailto:johnzu@ia.nsc.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 4:37 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Postage Meters and the "Right to Tinker"
> 
> 
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> Richard Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > If running TurboTax is not a fair use, then I
> > can't run it even if I _do_ buy a key from them . . .
> > 
> 
> It's not fair until you pay them an receive the authority.  It is not
> the key that gives authority, but the copyright holder at the time you
> exchange money for the key.  The key is just a token of the 
> authority to
> copy granted by the holder of the copyright.
> 
> .002
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