Of course - there are those copyright owners that would love to have that
right added.
IANAL, but according to Copyright Law Chapter 1 covers the
Rights of a copyright holder. First, what is covered:
Section 102: General
Subject Matter
(a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with
this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of
expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived,
reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a
machine or device.
(b) In no case does copyright
protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure,
process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery,
regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or
embodied in such work.
That - of course - isn't stopping
certain elements from continuing to attempt to get the Copyright extended to
protect the idea.
Section 103: (my paraphrasing in a non-legal
understanding) basically says "if you, as the author, add to a work, your
copyright is on that which you added, nothing else"
That didn't stop SCOG
from trying to lay claim to the whole of Linux.
Now we get to the meat of
the question, what exactly the rights are:
Section 106: Exclusive Rights In
Copyrighted Works
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of
copyright under this title has
the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any
of the following:
- reproduce the copyrighted work
- prepare
derivative works
- distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted
work to the public by sale or other transfer of
ownership1
- perform the copyrighted work
publicly2
- display the copyrighted work
publicly2
- claim authorship of that
work3
- prevent the use of his or her name as the author of
any work of visual art which he or she did not
create3
Nowhere in Copyright Law does it
say a copyright holder has the right to control the use of the copyright
protected work. For example, under pure Copyright Law when Sony BMG sells you a
cd of a work that Sony BMG controls the copyrights to - they do not have the
authority to tell you:
You can only use this cd in your car on the third
Tuesday of each month!
Any Use Control is artificial. It is being
controlled via Contract Laws via the means of End User license agreements.
Without those license agreements a person who has acquired a Legal copy of a
given work is free to use it in any way they like including posting that AOL CD
up on the target for their archery practice.
1) Limited to the
First Sale doctrine
2) Limited to the kind of works that are protected, not
all copyright works have this right
3) As identified in Section
106A
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