Choice of venue is a practical problem because it limits the number of people who can understand the full meaning of a licence, including the local wrinkles of its venue. I say there's potential for an effective fee in some cases, but I don't know the courts of (say) Santa Clara well enough to know if that's the case there. I dislike lawyerbombs :-/
Unfortunately, many people aren't familiar enough with their home legal systems to know how choice of venue being included or not would affect them. That's OK in a way: copyright sucks and debian tries to help users avoid some of the worst bits. Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] Within the UK alone, I can end up paying fairly large travel fees to > deal with a court case. [...] Only if you can afford them temporarily, until costs are awarded. Otherwise, a request to transfer to your home court is usually granted. See Department for Constitutional Affairs, Civil Procedure Rules, Part 30: Transfer. (A similar process is used when I claim money owed to my business, so I've seen this.) http://www.dca.gov.uk/civil/procrules_fin/contents/parts/part30.htm Do English courts consider venue clauses during this? Seems not. The points about living in the Scottish highlands border on the absurd. Scotland and England are different countries, legally, which limits the travel required a bit. A venue clause may make little difference in some places. As suggested by a couple of contributors, English penalties may be large enough now to trigger extradition for copyright infringement. I've forgotten what the Copyright [...] Act 2002 did. They're even making penalties large enough to *fast* extradite computer crackers: see April or so back on debian-uk. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
