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<div>Reinhard and other Textures users,</div>
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<div>Let us suppose that Textures 2.19 (Retina and non-Retina
versions) can be altered to run without checking for an installation
key.<i> (I assure you, it can be done.</i> In light of info below, let
me express that I have no intention of doing so.<i>)</i></div>
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<div>The U.S. Digitial Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes bypassing
digital rights management (DRM) of a program a criminal act, even if
you do not intend to distribute the modified work. Similar laws may
apply in other countries under treaties of the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO).</div>
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<div>There are various exceptions ("safe harbors") cited in
the U.S. law (e.g., reverse engineering for enabling interoperability
of an independently written program). None of these, nor the
exceptions granted on 3-year terms by the Library of Congress, seem to
apply directly to this situation. However, the law (17 U.S. Code<font
face="Georgia" size="-5" color="#A8132B"> § 1201</font> (c))
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 provides:</div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="-1" color="#000000">(c)
Other Rights, Etc., Not Affected.-(1) Nothing in this section shall
affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright
infringement, including fair use, under this title.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">At
http://www.mttlr.org/volthirteen/loos.pdf on p. 606 we find the
opinion:</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">"17 U.S.C. § 107 determines if a use
is fair (as opposed to copyright infringement) based on the purpose
and the character of the use, nature of the work, amount of the work
copied, and effect on the market.48 Balancing these factors indicates
that the copyright holder must suffer an actual harm before denying
the fair use defense.49 However, the structure and wording of the DMCA
seem to indicate that fair use must be pigeonholed into a safe harbor
against the presumption that copyright holders control rights for any
use of the work, especially if a "techno-</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">logical measure had been
violated.""</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">It is certainly unclear who now holds the
copyright to Textures---presumably Barry Smith's widow, assuming that
as owner of Blue Sky TeX Systems LLC (copyright holder in 2012) he
willed the business and all of its assets to her.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">I am not a lawyer, but I would assert
that<b> it is fair use</b> for licensed users of Textures 2.xx to
reverse-engineer the program to avert Internet check for an
installation key, and/or to use such a version, and/or to distribute
such a version to other licensed users.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Rationale:</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">---Blue Sky has a warranty obligation
("breach of an implied warranty of fitness for a particular
purpose"): not adequately fulfilled, Barry Smith's widow (as
president/former president and probable heir to the company's
assets) has expressed inability to fulfill in a timely fashion, and
there has been no offer of refund of purchase price or other
redress)</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">---licensed users are entitled to remedy
and redress and otherwise suffer an injury, for which Blue Sky should
be liable</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">---Blue Sky would suffer no actual harm
(company is apparently defunct, though under what
circumstances---e.g., creditors for possible debt owing---is unknown;
and given the rise of TeXShop and TeXnicle, there is no market for
future sales of Textures, hence only legacy users are served by such
provision of fair use)</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">On the other hand, making other
changes/improvements to upgrade the program (e.g., to adapt to changes
in Mac OS) should need permission of the copyright holder, whoever
that is now.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Let me know what you think. For the benefit
of others whom this email does not reach, please post also to the
Textures mailing list (see below).</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Best regards,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Paul</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">P.S.</font> The Textures mailing list still
exists:</div>
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<div>http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/textures</div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-5" color="#000000">To post a message to
all the list members, send email to</font><font face="Times"
size="-5" color="#000BEB"><u>
textures@email.esm.psu.edu</u></font><font face="Times" size="-5"
color="#000000">.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-5" color="#000000">However, lately I
have not been receiving any messages from the list (even my own
posts).</font></div>
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<div>Curiously I now see threads (incl. my posts) at
http://answerpot.com/forumdisplay.php?4-L309333-Textures</div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">The Textures Archives (2007-2013) are at
http://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/textures/</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">I do not know how many users subscribe to
the list; I just wrote Gary Gray to ask.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">I have sent this msg to the
list.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-3" color="#000000">Paul J.
Campbell</font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" size="-3" color="#000000">Mathematics and
Computer Science<br>
Beloit College<br>
700 College St.<br>
Beloit, WI 53511-5595<br>
USA</font><br>
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-3" color="#000000">ofc:
send email instead</font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" size="-3" color="#000000">fax: (608)
363-2052<br>
res: (608) 362-2805</font></div>
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