Re: "GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivativedistros"

[Merijn de Weerd]

On 2006-06-30, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
> Merijn de Weerd wrote:
> [...]
>> An interesting case happened some time ago here in the Netherlands.
>> A calendar was published that contained for every month a nice
>> reproduction of a painting, all by the same painter (Rien
>> Poortvliet). Someone bought a lot of calendars, cut out the
>> reproductions, framed them and sold that. The Dutch Supreme Court
>> ruled that exhaustion (first sale) did not apply, since he was
>> transforming the works into something new.
>
> Sonds like Dutch edition of Mirage Editions (scholarly disapproval 
> of Mirage Editions has been widespread). Do you have a link?

I prefer to provide summaries that actually make a point
rather than quoting random lumps of text from other people's
texts as you like to do. 

If you tell me the relevance of Mirage Editions, I'll give
you the full cite and all.

Merijn

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