----- Original Message ----- From: "Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." Subject: Re: Photos and Rights
> U.S. law applies in this case. If a person outside the U.S., in a country where the copyright law is different, were to want to complaint he/she could bring suit in that country and obtain a different result as to his/her images and the images of all others in that country, or even bring suit here as the courts here would apply the foreign law. My point Maris, is that by making an arbitrary decision, the pissant little American judge (yes, I have strong feelings on this one) is ignoring the laws of other nations. I find it ludicrous, and quite offensive, that an American court feels it has the right to say that it is OK to break the laws of other countries, and then make it incumbent on the citizen of the other country to bring the case to the USA to have it tried. American courts, and government have a long history of ignoring agreements that it is signatory to, and the laws of other countries, when it is inconvenient to abide by said laws and agreements. At least that is what I am seeing with the myriad trade disputes that are ongoing between our two countries, where the US has consistently ignored GATT and NAFTA rulings when it is inconvenient to abide by the agreements that the American government is signatory to. I could go on, but I won't. Is an American court going to feel that, based on Mr. Pissant 9th circuit court judge's decision that a foriegn law needs to be considered? I suspect not. What that decision is saying is that it is OK for an American to steal intellectual property from someone in another country, not withstanding the fact that copyright laws in the country where the owner is located, and the server that the images reside on is located. Interestingly enough, it was this particular court decision that made it possible for Lycos to contravene the copyrights of PUG contributors. More intersting still, it was mostly American contributors who had their shit in a knot about the violation of their intellectual property rights. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
