Copyright is only meaningful if it's defended. If it's not defended, it's abandoned. We must have a real lawyer on board here who can settle this.
Len ---- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 3:03 PM Subject: Re: All pentax manuals on 1 CDROM > T Rittenhouse wrote: > > >There is only a copyright violation if the holder of the > >copyright complains. > > Well, no. A copyright violation has taken place whether or not the copyright > owner complains, but the guy's not going to get in *trouble* unless they > do. Of course, if they tried to take him to court, they can only really > claim actual damages, and since the only thing Pentax is losing is downloads > from their web site (which are free) and he's only charging 8-9 dollars > per disc it probably isn't worth the time :-) Pentax could probably get > him booted of eBay but I don't know why they would. He's clearly not doing > this for profit; even if he's shipping 1st class mail he's only making 6-7 > bucks per disc. Given the time involved, he's probably making about minimum > wage. Seems like no biggie to me. > > > -- > Mark Roberts - 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 .
