On Jan 11, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
I have seen many times companies putting out reprints of century
or centuries-old manuscripts with no changes except for the
strongly-worded copyright notice threatening to torture your first-
born if you so much as think about making a copy. There has to be
a law against fraudulent copyright notices, isn't there?
There is, in the United States. 17 USC § 506 c provides
(c) * Fraudulent Copyright Notice.— * Any person who, with
fraudulent intent, places on any article a notice of copyright or
words of the same purport that such person knows to be false, or
who, with fraudulent intent, publicly distributes or imports for
public distribution any article bearing such notice or words that
such person knows to be false, shall be fined not more than $2,500.
When I did a cursory review of case law some years back, I could
find no evidence that it had ever been used.
Ooh, nice catch! I'll be sure to note that when I write my version of
Snow White and get sued...
Thanks for the complete citation.
C.
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