RJack wrote: [...] > But..... from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals: > > "The Copyright Act authorizes only two types of claimants to sue for > copyright infringement: (1) owners of copyrights, and (2) persons who > have been granted exclusive licenses by owners of copyrights.[Note 3] > > [Note 3] ... We do not believe that the Copyright Act permits holders of > rights under copyrights to choose third parties to bring suits on their > behalf. While F.R.Civ.P. 17(a) ordinarily permits the real party in > interest to ratify a suit brought by another party, see Urrutia Aviation > Enterprises v. B.B. Burson & Associates, Inc., 406 F.2d 769, 770 (5th > Cir.1969); Clarkson Co. Ltd. v. Rockwell Int'l Corp., 441 F.Supp. 792 > (N.D.Calif.1977), the Copyright Law is quite specific in stating that > only the "owner of an exclusive right under a copyright" may bring suit. > 17 U.S.C. Sec. 501(b) (Supp. IV 1980)."; Eden Toys Inc v. Florelee > Undergarment Co Inc, 697 F.2d 27 (2nd Cir 1983).
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2009/busybox-complaint-2009-12-14.pdf "Plaintiff Software Freedom Conservancy is the corporate home for the BusyBox project and the designated copyright enforcement agent for Mr. Andersen with respect to BusyBox." LOL. This farce is a pure PR stunt meant to help SFLC/SFC with fund raising to pay the inflated salaries to Eben and his underlings. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/ Hey GNUtians, donate to your brainwashes: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/donate/ regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
