Re: Shoplifting, concealment, liability presumption

[RJack]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> On 3/10/2010 3:03 PM, RJack wrote:
> > The Copyright Act's "pass-through permissions" provision eh?
>
> No, the license's pass-through permission.


> The Copyright Act gives rights holders the exclusive right to
> authorize others to copy and distribute covered works.

Yep you're right.

The Act just doesn't authorize *non-rights* holders to authorize others
to copy and distribute covered works. It seems that the pesky word
"exclusive" keeps getting in the way of "pass-through permissions".

> The license expresses how the rights holders choose to grant this
> authorization.

Yeah... except there's no right to authorize others to authorize.
You're seeing double when you read 17 USC sec. 106.

Sincerely,
RJack :)