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in the context of a discussion of open-source license forms and their limits, i read through the german copyright law, and observe that its provisions render encoding-based controls unenforcible: Article 69e Decompilation (1) The authorization of the right holder shall not be required where reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning of items 1 and 2 of Article 69c are indispensable to obtain the information necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, provided that the following conditions are met: 1. these acts are performed by the licensee or by another person having a right to use a copy of a program, or on their behalf by a person authorized to do so; 2. the information necessary to achieve interoperability has not previously been readily available to the persons referred to in item 1; 3. these acts are confined to the parts of the original program which are necessary to achieve interoperability. ... Article 69g Application of Other Legal Provisions; Law of Contract ... (2) Any contractual provisions contrary to ... Article 69e shall be null and void. ... John Cowan wrote: > > AndrewWatt2000@a... scripsit: > > > If I read other of your comments correctly you seem to be agreeing that this > > data-dataContainer combination is currently "jointly owned". Or is "jointly > > controlled" less provocative? > > Yes, definitely. "Ownership" means not only possession and control, but > the *right* thereto. Illegitimate ownership is a contradiction in terms. > When a person has possession and control without the right to it, we > call them not "owner" but "thief", "blackmailer", or "pirate". >
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