In this rather interesting article in the Utah Law Review, Professor John Tehranian (J.D. Yale) explains how he would be liable for $4.544 billion in potential damages each year if copyright laws were strictly enforced.
http://www.turnergreen.com/publications/Tehranian_Infringement_Nation.pdf Excerpt from the article: "By the end of the day, John has infringed the copyrights of twenty emails, three legal articles, an architectural rendering, a poem, five photographs, an animated character, a musical composition, a painting, and fifty notes and drawings. All told, he has committed at least eighty-three acts of infringement and faces liability in the amount of $12.45 million (to say nothing of potential criminal charges). There is nothing particularly extraordinary about John's activities. Yet if copyright holders were inclined to enforce their rights to the maximum extent allowed by law, barring last minute salvation from the notoriously ambiguous fair use defense, he would be liable for a mind-boggling $4.544 billion in potential damages each year. And, surprisingly, he has not even committed a single act of infringement through P2P file sharing. Such an outcome flies in the face of our basic sense of justice. Indeed, one must either irrationally conclude that John is a criminal infringer—a veritable grand larcenist—or blithely surmise that copyright law must not mean what it appears to say. Something is clearly amiss. Moreover, the troublesome gap between copyright law and norms has grown only wider in recent years." Professor John Tehranian is a Professor of Law at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law and holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Yale. saqib http://quantumcrypto.de/dante/ _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
