SCO's big legal gun takes aim (ZDNet)

SCO's big legal gun takes aim (ZDNet)

Posted Aug 21, 2003 21:08 UTC (Thu) by danw6144 (guest, #14336)
Parent article: SCO's big legal gun takes aim (ZDNet)

The pre-emption provision of Section 301 is crystal clear.
So is:

Section 106. Exclusive rights in copyrighted works.
(3) to distribute copies or phono records of the copyrighted
work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental,
lease, or lending;

So what is pre-empted ?
The GPL is a license transferring an ownership right (use and distribution).
He is saying the Copyright Act pre-empts the Copyright Act.
This is gibberish.
See Professor Eben Moglen's comments at:
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/160200&tid=23

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