OT: Legalese [Re: And another Ubuntu convert!]

Tue Jan 27 19:12:30 UTC 2009

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:47 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Software has always been licensed, Entertainment generally hasn't
>> (at least explicitly).
> 
> Oh so wrong. They are copyrighted and licensed for use, have always
> been.

Show me such a license, then.  Movies don't have them.  Of course they're 
copyrighted - every work is.  But we have laws about what you can do with 
copyrighted material, and, in Canada, fair use includes putting it on the 
medium of your choice.