[ILUG] IOL Broadband handing over information.

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Gareth Eason wrote:

> 	That is EXACTLY my point. Many of them will not - which means you
> cannot utilise your LICENSE to use the INFORMATION which you have
> purchased.

What licence?

> I can only suggest you please go back and read my original post, 
> see if you can understand it, and if not, please let me know and I 
> will endevour to explain it even more simply and clearly for you.

Maybe I didn't understand some subtle point, but you seem to be 
saying you get a licence to the information when you buy a CD or DVD, 
and hence you should be able to demand new media should it break - 
even if media was fine when you bought it and you broke it yourself.

If that /is/ what you're saying, I think you're very much mistaken. 
You didn't buy a licence, you bought a CD or DVD. You didn't get any 
'licence' because you don't need one to 'make use of' a copyrighted 
work, the copyright act already grants you right to copy in so far as 
you must to make use of the work - if its needed at all (and if not - 
no copying involved at all - copyright doesnt even enter into it. 
Except in so far as you wish to argue that your eyeballs or ears are 
a copying device).

Anyway. I think you're confused.

You don't have a licence to the 'information' on the CD/DVD. You own 
the media and are hence are allowed to use it, that's all.

(DRM issues not withstanding - where the consumer has been rolled 
over through amendments to copyright, granting rights to publishers 
which they never had before nor should have).

regards,
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