[GTALUG] legal history of university AUPs, was Re: For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

[D. Joe]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:06:26AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> | From: D. Joe via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> 
> An excellent and informative post.
> 

Thanks!

> | Amongst those of us of a certain age in the US, who don't have legal 
> | training, I suspect the lore persists that copyright restrictions apply 
> | only if the copyright for the work has been registered--this used to be 
> | true in living memory.
> 
> Are you in the US?

Most of the time, yes. 

> My understanding of US law (shaky!!) is that damages are limited
> if you didn't register the copyright.

That's what I understand, yes, that unregistered, birthright copyright is mostly good for injunctive relief ("stop using that!").

Since use is freedom 0 that seems enough of a problem for free software, though.

> moral rights

Looks like folks have gotten a good bead on this elsethread, but yeah, good point.