DJ Anubis scripsit: > "No one is not supposed to be unaware of the law".
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. --John Selden, 1584-1684 Nevertheless, this is not always strictly complied with. In criminal cases it holds up well enough, but when _Time_ magazine printed that a prominent Florida socialite had been divorced by her husband (where the fact was that she had divorced him), she sued for defamation. At the time, the only ground for divorce in Florida was adultery, and therefore _Time_ was per innuendo calling her an adulteress. The court rather sensibly held that _Time_ and its editors, both based in New York, neither knew nor had reason to know of this particular point of Florida law. > Say a french author/vendor having his > house/business in France must conform to french laws when granting/selling. Most jurisdictions surely apply the lex situs here. > But when you are licensee, if the grantor is german, american, chinese, the > grantor country law applies. With, or without, regard to the grantor's conflict of law rules? (I.e. accepting or rejecting the renvoi?) Most U.S. contracts attempt to contract out of the renvoi. -- John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com Micropayment advocates mistakenly believe that efficient allocation of resources is the purpose of markets. Efficiency is a byproduct of market systems, not their goal. The reasons markets work are not because users have embraced efficiency but because markets are the best place to allow users to maximize their preferences, and very often their preferences are not for conservation of cheap resources. --Clay Shirkey -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3