Hyman Rosen wrote: > > On 4/15/2010 6:26 PM, RJack wrote: > > To institute the Best Buy et al suit, the plaintiff was required by > > statute to identify the allegedly infringed work's registration: > > > > "§ 411 · Registration and civil infringement actions > > (a) Except for an action brought for a violation of the rights of the > > author under section 106A(a), and subject to the provisions of > > subsection (b), no civil action for infringement of the copyright in any > > United States work shall be instituted until preregistration or > > registration of the copyright claim has been made in accordance > > with this title." > > It's amazing that you can quote the statute and still misread it > so badly! The statute requires that the work be registered, not > that the suit identify the registration.
"A complaint which fails to plead compliance with § 411(a) is defective and subject to dismissal."; Techniques, Inc. v. Rohn, 592 F.Supp. 1195, 1197; 225 U.S.P.Q. 741 (S.D.N.Y. 1984). regards, alexander. P.S. "Every computer program in the world, BusyBox included, exceeds the originality standards required by copyright law." Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' P.P.S. "Of course correlation implies causation! Without this fundamental principle, no science would ever make any progress." Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' -- 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 gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss