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Don't believe what you hear so easily.

Don't believe what you hear so easily.

Posted Aug 16, 2009 3:21 UTC (Sun) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)
In reply to: Don't believe what you hear so easily. by mikov
Parent article: The unending story of cdrtools

The Volokh and Moglen comments don't apply any longer because the appeal in Jacobsen v. Katzer established a precedent. They were speaking before that happened. By the way, I think the quote you are concerned with is of Volokh, not Moglen.

I'd like to see this tried. A person gets a license that claims to be irrevocable and has a reasonable expectation that it is. An assign of the copyright holder then claims that the license the copyright holder conveyed doesn't apply due to the assign's arbitrary decision.

Good luck with that :-)


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