On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 08:11:18PM +1000, Derby Chang wrote: > > But fair enough, this isn't strictly a political issue. Here is the > famed Richard Stallman's take on it > > "In essence, even if the defendant can prove he tried to find the author > and couldn't, when the author later objects to the infringement, he can > still sue and get money and an injunction. This bill merely places some > limits on how much money can be recovered in such cases. It would not > mean open-season on GPL-covered free software." > > http://blamcast.net/articles/orphan-works-bill-deserves-support-rms > > D
Quite. If Richard Stallman (whose views on protecting individual rights are pretty far out on the extremes) doesn't think that this bill is a threat to intellectial propert rights, then I rather doubt that most people here would find anything to trouble them. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
