There have been instances of the rights holder threatening the developer directly (ie. bypassing Google entirely).
About 3-4 months ago, some patent IP company notified one of the developers of a caller ID app that they had a patent on displaying location information of the caller id. The developer was forced to pull his app or face a lawsuit. While this is an extreme case, as Mark suggested earlier, it is more than likely up to the rights holder to assert their rights. Those developers that knowingly infringe are playing a game of russian roulette; however, I have noticed most of the infringing apps appear to be out of China or some other asian country... that alone may dissuade the rights holder from pursing it. Gene On Jul 10, 6:23 am, michael <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > > Doing so may well violate their DMCA safe harbor provisions and open > > them up to big-ticket lawsuits. I suspect that they are best served by > > following the DMCA rules, which requires takedown notices by the > > rights holders (e.g., Disney). > > I didn't think of that but good point. > > I agree that probably the best way to act against infringement > problems is to notify copyright holders. Speaking for myself, the > problem is not big enough for me to go through all that trouble. I > guess it is just a downside of a free market that we will have to live > with. > > Cheers, > Michael. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
