Michael Stevens wrote:

kurttrail wrote:
Michael Stevens wrote:

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart wrote, "The limited scope of the
copyright holder's statutory monopoly, like the limited copyright
duration required by the Constitution, reflects a balance of
competing claims upon the public interest: Creative work is to be
encouraged and rewarded, but private motivation must ultimately
serve the cause of promoting broad public availability of
literature, music, and the
other arts. The immediate effect of our copyright law is to secure a
fair return for an 'author's' creative labor. But the ultimate aim
is, by this incentive, to stimulate artistic creativity for the
general public good. 'The sole interest of the United States and the
primary object in conferring the monopoly,' this Court has said, 'lie
in the general benefits derived by the public from the labors of
authors' . . . . When technological change has rendered its literal
terms ambiguous, the Copyright Act must be construed in light of this
basic purpose." - http://laws.findlaw.com/us/422/151.html

I have yet to find a clearer or more beautiful explanation of purpose
of Copyright in the US!

If you say so. LOL.

And I did say so!

Sounded a little tentative to me.

How?

It also seemed
to be slanted toward the arts.

Creative Works. Don't think software is creative? Do think that people
author software?

What case was this missive quoted
from?

All you had to do was scroll up the page on the link I provided! But
that wouldn't be the only case it's been quoted in.

It's hard to comprehend how you think Microsoft should not
have the right to charge for technology they developed in house or
find and acquire to interrogate into the OS.

One copy per individual, not per some machine with no rights that
doesn't even enter into the calculus of what copyright is meant for!

If you look at the
pricing of Windows, it has not increased in price on scale with the
worth of the dollar. It is still a bargain, and MS is a business that
shareholders expect a return on their investment.

That's right MS's only motivation is greed, and MS will do anything it
thinks it can get away to feed it's greed!

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