[cc-community] Copyright enforcement and CC BY-NC licenses
jonathon
jonathon.blake at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 17:11:23 EDT 2008
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 13:56, drew Roberts wrote:
> Someone violates the copyright on your work. You sue. You are entitled to statutory damages right? You collect. Are you now guilty of violating the NC licenses of the works yours built upon?
I would not think so.
However:
* Various patent troll companies have constructed a business model
based upon suing people, and generating their revenue that way;
* SCO is leading the charge in filing lawsuits based upon
non-existent copyright violations, as a business model;
Furthermore, I would suggest that the court case would enable the
upstream content creators to file their own lawsuit against the
copyright/license violator. The only legal issue is how much of that
upstream content is required, for them to have a "successful" outcome.
xan
jonathon
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