SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT v PAUL OWEN & ORS (2002)
Derek Fawcus
dfawcus at cisco.com
Wed, 15 May 2002 23:12:29 +0100
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:25:02PM +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> Please trim your replies.
>
> You do own the media. You don't own the software on the media. You own
> a license to use the software. Without a license, it would be illegal to
> copy it to your hard disk, RAM or CPU instruction pipeline.
I disagree. My reading of Section 50C is that this makes such copies
non infringing, and as such they do not require a licence.
DF