Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

[Thufir Hawat]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:56:54 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Copyright_Directive
> 
> <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?
uri=CELEX:32001L0029:EN:HTML>
>      (27) The mere provision of physical facilities for enabling or
>      making a communication does not in itself amount to communication
>      within the meaning of this Directive.
> 
> Since Verizon provides a link to an "actiontec gateway" URL, it can
> easily be argues that it's Actiontec, not Verizon, who is making the
> software available. Clearly, the SFLC beleieves so, since it is
> satisfied with having Actiontec provide the GPLed sources.


 I don't think a copyrighted jpg could be distributed that way, though.


-Thufir