• eleijeep@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Because in that case the copyright holder is the arbitrator of the terms under which their copyrighted material can be used and reproduced. If they did not own the copyright then any “license” would not be worth the paper it was written on and no judge would allow it to be treated as an implicit contract.

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      1 day ago

      You’re right, I misread the context (I was trying to carry on multiple simultaneous conversations).

      My apologies.