Somewhat OT: copyright question

[Jack]

Please tell us which case of the hundreds in this
FAQ is the one you are referring to. It's hard to 
argue the validity of your argument that unintentional
copyright infringement is prosecutable without knowing
the basis of your argument. While it is true that you
can unintentionally infringe on copyright, there is
also a "safe harbor" provision in the US Copyright act

that holds people harmless under certain conditions.

Please refer to the following site for information
about why and how content providers are or are not
liable for copyright infringement. 

http://www.libertolaw.com/2-99.html

And yes this person is a lawyer as opposed to the
EmuFAQ writer. Although the EmuFAQ writer makes a
valid point that one must be careful in creating code,
to use a clean-room setting and be able to prove it.
Something very important to any work in FOSS. There
how's that for bringing the subject on-topic?


Brian D.


--- djgoku wrote:

> This case established two things.  First, courts can
> find against a
> defendant in an intellectual property dispute
> whether or not the
> defendant is aware of such activity.  Second,
> intellectual property
> protection extends to all copies of a given work
> regardless of how
> they are made or the media on which they are
> presented.
> 
> good read:
>
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/EmuFAQ2000/AppendixB.htm
> 
> Bunch of court case stuff.



		
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