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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 10:02 AM EDT |
All the lawsuits I've read about have been between the infringer and the
copyright holder.
First: the user is not the copyright holder. As a
result, they have no standing to enforce the loss of license which is between
the copyright holder and the distributor.
GPL v2:
3. You may copy and
distribute the Program [snip] a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding
machine-readable source code
4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense,
or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any
attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void,
and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
6.
Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the
recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy,
distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may
not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights
granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third
parties to this License.
GPL v3:
8. [snip] Termination of your
rights under this section does not terminate the licenses of parties who have
received copies or rights from you under this License.
9. [snip]
However, nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or
modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept
this License.
10. Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient
automatically receives a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and
propagate that work, subject to this License. You are not responsible for
enforcing compliance by third parties with this License.
To put in context
of the Law:
What standing does a user have to sue?
What relief can
the user ask for?
If the relief is not provided, what punishment can be
requested?
I'm curious how you view the potential that a user can sue....
keeping in mind, that Copyright Law itself is very explicit that only a holder
of one of the rights of Copyright Law has standing to bring a copyright lawsuit
and Righthaven faced that reality the hard way.
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