On Wednesday 09 August 2006 18:49, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Marcel Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not understand why you need choice of venue. Unless we know how > > that venue treats absent defendants, any ambiguous terms in the licence > > and some other things, it looks rather like a licensor trying to get > > some advantage, such as being able to use their usual legal team against > > a smaller defendant and stopping that defendant being judged by their > > own state's people when appropriate. As you note, it isn't usual for > > free software licences to specify venue, as there are other agreements > > which do that. Why is choice of venue needed? > > (Small copyright holder with limited resources, large company with no > business presence in copyright holder's state, copyright violation, but > I think we've had this conversation before)
An evil author (as copyright holder) despite his limited resources could cause lots of damage to a large company which has never violated his copyrights. This is even more scary. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
