Mateusz Konieczny <[email protected]> writes: > Mar 2, 2019, 4:13 PM by [email protected]: > >> In most jurisdications licensing and trade marks will only hold up >> when defended or enforced in court. Once you stop doing so you >> might loose your protection. >> > AFAIK risk of losing protection is frequently overstated and "must hunt down > every violation > or protection disappears is a myth" even for trade marks. > > But can you provide source that it applies to licensing? So far I heard about > it only in context > of trademarks.
In the US, trademarks have a notion of loss from not defending them. As I understand it, this does not apply to copyright or to patents. I have never heard of a notion of loss of copyright from non-defense, in any country. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
