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Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!news1.digex.net!access3!tdarcos
From: tdarcos@access3.digex.net (Paul Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.cd-rom,misc.legal
Subject: Re: WAD AUTHORS - READ THIS - DOOM WAD CD response
Followup-To: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.cd-rom,misc.legal
Date: 4 Sep 1994 17:37:43 GMT
Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
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James L. Coffey (jcoffey@crl.com) wrote:
: If someone writes a WAD, then they have the right to stop it's
: distribution if they want to. If someone uses their work without their
: permission, then they certainly have the right to seek legal redressis
: currently in the middle of a suit over copyrights, and CIS *will* remove
: any software that the author asks them to remove, for what ever reason.
CIS just removes the stuff on the grounds that they don't care what's on
their system, but if there are complaints they will pull it.
: A CDROM manufacturer should be expected to the same, even if it means
: destroying a run of disks and reprinting non-infringing ones.
If the work is infringing and if the manufacturer sees liability.
: I think at least one manufacturer has done this after some copyrighted
: works were included in a print run.
If such a case happens, it's cheaper to toss the originals than fight a
suit. The estimates are that it costs about $140,000 to sue over an
infringement case. Courts may not award court costs and attorneys fees,
and are sometimes very stingy with them. So you might sue, and might
even win, but find your lawyer then suing *you* for, say, $25,000 in
court costs and attorneys fees after "only" getting a judgement
for $115,000.
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