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Supreme Court Lets Utilization Rights Stand

Posted by Zonk on from the no-discussion dept.

Moof writes "The United States Supreme Court refused to hear a case between a programmer and his former employer. What makes this news is the fact that the court is letting stand the rulings of the lower courts: Essentially if someone owns a physical copy of software, then they are allowed to modify the code as part of their regular use, no matter what other agreements are in place."

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  1. this is good to know by P3NIS_CLEAVER · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i have all of my code from each job archived since 1999. It is always a great reference.

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  2. Re:You can't generalize it like that by Omniscientist · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Wow someone please mod this up +5 informative; parent is the only person that seems to be talking any sense. There was no ruling, they just refused to hear the case. The US Supreme Court only accepted around 80 cases last year and turned down thousands.

    They aren't making any rulings or statements or anything like that. Hell, they denied the case without comment. Probably not important enough for their time. The assumption made by the submitter about anyone can now modify their software however they want is pure BS and sensationalism.