[cc-community] Copyright enforcement and CC BY-NC licenses

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Fri Aug 1 17:55:27 EDT 2008


On Friday 01 August 2008 17:11:23 jonathon wrote:
> 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;

Right, so when does it become a busines 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. 

Sure, but see below.

> The only legal issue is how much of that 
> upstream content is required, for them to have a "successful" outcome.

Also, if they did not register their copyrights, they would have to prove 
damages while the person who did register theirs would not have to prove 
damages right?
>
> xan
>
> jonathon

all the best,

drew



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