Authored by: DannyB on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 10:42 AM EDT |
Would statutory damages enter the picture?
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Authored by: OmniGeek on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 10:42 AM EDT |
Since the crux of the counterclaim is copyright infringement of material that is
essential to the alleged infringer's product, an award of the profits resulting
from the infringement (not an unusual result in copyright infringement actions,
I believe) would basically be an award of most or all profits from the product.
The fact that the infringer has profited from selling something the copyright
holder normally gives away for free doesn't negate the damage. If anything, it
implicitly proves that the copyright holder *could* have sold it themselves
absent the infringement, thus establishing a real loss of potential profit
resulting from the infringement.
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Authored by: DannyB on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 10:46 AM EDT |
Can't this be used as precedent to argue that statutory damages are okay even if
disconnected from reality?
http://www.tec
hdirt.com/articles/20120911/14213120346/court-fining-jammie-thomas-9250-per-song
-infringed-motivates-creative-activity.shtml
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 10:46 AM EDT |
mount is - like many other Unix utilities - a really important part of the
install. I mean, think about it, you can't boot or use any of your disk drives
without mount (leave alone adding or swapping them out)!
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft or Apple was copying code from mount (and
other GPL tools) and using such code in commercial products ... but I guess
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