Windows Media Player user license extensions

[Philip Rowlands]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Ken Brown wrote:

>If you find a newspaper left on a seat in the train, would you read it?
Depends which newspaper.

>If you found a message printed on the page that said "by reading this
>newspaper you agree to pay WH Smith's  35 pence" would you either stop
>reading it or go round to the shop and pay up?

You don't need a license to read printed material, as there is no breach
of copyright by doing so. Their notice is not legally enforcable.


Cheers,

Phil