[License-discuss] The Right of Display

[Lawrence Rosen]

John Cowan wrote:

> But suppose I write and send you a program that, when used as a web server, transmits the necessary HTML+CSS to display on a standard browser a pattern of highly colored blobs that I consider artistic, such that if I painted this same pattern of blobs it would clearly be copyrightable.  If the license on the server code says "You can run this on your own computer and look at the output all you want", then surely you are not entitled to make the server available to all on the Internet, because you have infringed my public performance right, which I did not grant you.

 

I agree with you, but that is nowhere near the examples that I am citing. Indeed, it is probably so rare that even you haven't done this, and I won't pay you for it anyway. /Larry

 

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