Re: First Sale upheld in software case

[Hyman Rosen]

Rjack wrote:
> "In light of their facts, those cases thus stand for the entirely
> unremarkable principle that “uses” that violate a license agreement
> constitute copyright infringement only when those uses would infringe
> in the absence of any license agreement at all."

Fortunately, since copying and distributing computer programs
infringes upon the author's copyrights in the absence of any
license agreement at all, the JMRI decision continues to be
perfectly sound.