License

A license is a Contract in which an owner transfers the use of their thing to a different agent, in stated conditions. The receiver gets the thing, or a copy, together with the conditions. If the receiver goes past the conditions, the result that the license set follows. That result can be to give back the thing, to transfer value, or to lose the use. The license did not transfer use past its conditions. Thus the owner is the victim, and the repair is the one that the license names. A license binds only the persons who agreed to it. It makes no property in ideas. It does not apply to a third party who did not consent, as the entry on intellectual property shows. A license that a person gave in duress, or with hidden terms, is invalid. A license that authority commands, without agreement between trade partners, is Regulation, not a real license.