Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268305AbUJJO2P (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:28:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268306AbUJJO2P (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:28:15 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:17853 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268305AbUJJO2N (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:28:13 -0400 Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone From: Alan Cox To: Brian Litzinger Cc: Dave Jones , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Kyle Moffett , "jmerkey@comcast.net" , jonathan@jonmasters.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20041010063541.GA9445@top.worldcontrol.com> References: <100120041740.9915.415D967600014EC2000026BB2200758942970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> <35fb2e590410011509712b7d1@mail.gmail.com> <415DD1ED.6030101@drdos.com> <1096738439.25290.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41659748.9090906@drdos.com> <8B592DC4-18A9-11D9-ABEB-000393ACC76E@mac.com> <4165B265.2050506@drdos.com> <20041007221826.GB5302@redhat.com> <20041010063541.GA9445@top.worldcontrol.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1097414703.29264.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:25:04 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1070 Lines: 25 On Sul, 2004-10-10 at 07:35, Brian Litzinger wrote: > At least in New York and California the owner of intellectual > property has to defend his property. Otherwise it becomes > abandoned. (just like real property) This sort of thing thankfully only applies to Americans for copyright, foreigners have more rights in the USA here than US citizens do because of international treaties. You do lose certain abilities if you know about a violation for a long time especially in trademark, to an extent in patent and very little in copyright (you'd find it hard to argue you needed an injunction as opposed to just damages if you let someone do infringe for two years). Courts in europe at least also take a dim view of ambushing people (in other words sitting on an infringement for a few years to rack up the value). Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/