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- From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- In-Reply-To: jfw@ksr.com's message of 14 Aug 92 14:01:52 EDT
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:28:19 GMT
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- John Woods brings out a good point that's worth underscoring.
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- Copyright is not only a binary condition, that is, something is either
- copyright or it's not.
-
- Based on how you've treated your copyright there are various shades of
- limitations as to what you can do in the event of it being violated.
-
- For starters, if you do not register a copyright with the US Copyright
- Office (for US copyrights of course) you are pretty much limited to
- cease and desist. Damages become difficult to impossible to sue for
- under that law.
-
- There are similar considerations for not handling your copyright
- properly, I'm not comfortable enough with the details to try to
- outline them.
-
- Cease and desist can of course be powerful (how would you like to be
- stuck with a warehouse full of books or whatever?) and can of course
- be a basis for negotiating some valuable reconsideration (hey, i'll
- give you a $25K if I can sell those books rather than junk them,
- deal?), but you still may be very limited in your recourse (we weren't
- selling any of those books anyhow, I'll call the recyclers, sorry
- about that, <click>.)
-
- --
- -Barry Shein
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