John Hasler wrote:
Hyman Rosen writes:
Lawsuits are not graded on style points, they are judged by
outcomes.
But there have been no lawsuits, just out of court settlements in
favor of the plaintiffs.
As to registration, look at this:
<http://www.gonzagaip.org/blog/?p=149> among others. While you
clearly need either a registration application or a refusal before
going to trial, it is not at all clear that one is required before
filing. If the court does insist on one (which it will only do if
the defendant brings it up) and you don't have it when you file your
case will merely be dismissed without prejudice and with instructions
to refile after you get it.
It is also not clear to me that the complaint must mention the
registration status of the work.
Per your link:
"A circuit split has developed as to whether the prospective litigant
must have a registration in hand before filing a lawsuit or merely
applied for the registration."
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit where the SFLC
files its lawsuits has ruled in 2007 in In re Literary Works in
Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation, 509 F.3d 116 (2d Cir. 2007
cert. granted Mar 2009), "Whether this requirement is jurisdictional is
not up for debate in this Circuit. On two recent occasions, we have
squarely held that it is."
The Verizon suit was settled in Mar. 2008 before Section 411 was amended
by Congress in Oct. 2008. The old sec. 411 requirements will apply to
all actions settled prior to Oct. 2008.
I personally hope the pending suit in Erik Andersen v. Best Buy et.al.
is heard by the court. Erik Andersen filed a fraudulent registration
application with the Copyright Office claiming ownership of busybox-0.60.3
Just ask Bruce Perens and about twenty other BusyBox developers:
***********************************************************************
The contents of the AUTHORS file in tarball busybox-0.60.3.tar.bz2:
List of the authors of code contained in BusyBox.
If you have code in BusyBox, you should be listed here. If you should
be listed, or the description of what you have done needs more detail,
or is incorect, _please_ let me know.
-Erik
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Erik Andersen <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Tons of new stuff, major rewrite of most of the
core apps, tons of new apps as noted in header files.
Edward Betts <[email protected]>
expr, hostid, logname, tty, wc, whoami, yes
John Beppu <[email protected]>
du, head, nslookup, sort, tee, uniq
Brian Candler <[email protected]>
tiny-ls(ls)
Randolph Chung <[email protected]>
fbset, ping, hostname, and mkfifo
Dave Cinege <[email protected]>
more(v2), makedevs, dutmp, modularization, auto links file,
various fixes, Linux Router Project maintenance
Magnus Damm <[email protected]>
tftp client
insmod powerpc support
Larry Doolittle <[email protected]>
pristine source directory compilation, lots of patches and fixes.
Gennady Feldman <[email protected]>
Sysklogd (single threaded syslogd, IPC Circular buffer support,
logread), various fixes.
Karl M. Hegbloom <[email protected]>
cp_mv.c, the test suite, various fixes to utility.c, &c.
Daniel Jacobowitz <[email protected]>
mktemp.c
Matt Kraai <[email protected]>
documentation, bugfixes, test suite
John Lombardo <[email protected]>
dirname, tr
Glenn McGrath <[email protected]>
ar, dpkg, dpkg-deb
Vladimir Oleynik <[email protected]>
cmdedit; ports: ash, stty, traceroute; locale, various fixes
and irreconcilable critic of everything not perfect.
Bruce Perens <[email protected]>
Original author of BusyBox. His code is still in many apps.
Tim Riker <[email protected]>
bug fixes, member of fan club
Kent Robotti <[email protected]>
reset, tons and tons of bug reports and patchs.
Chip Rosenthal <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
wget - Contributed by permission of Covad Communications
Pavel Roskin <[email protected]>
Lots of bugs fixes and patches.
Gyepi Sam <[email protected]>
Remote logging feature for syslogd
Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mkswap, fsck.minix, mkfs.minix
Mark Whitley <[email protected]>
grep, sed, cut, xargs, style-guide, new-applet-HOWTO, bug fixes, etc.
Charles P. Wright <[email protected]>
gzip, mini-netcat(nc)
Enrique Zanardi <[email protected]>
tarcat (since removed), loadkmap, various fixes, Debian maintenance
Emanuele Aina <[email protected]>
run-parts
Sincerely,
RJack
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