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Copyright violation in England - no money required - robkelk - 08-31-2007
'Commercially unimportant' copyright infringement punished
Quote:So, if you're in England or Wales, you have to worry about copyright violation even if money isn't a consideration. I can see a company using this as precedent for legally blocking fansubs...
A software developer responsible for a copyright infringement described even by the copyright owner as insignificant still broke the law, a court has ruled. An injunction has been served even though the infringer has stopped using the technology. ...
(And Canadian courts sometimes take note of English decisions. I've been lead to believe that, occasionally, US courts do, too.)
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012