The bigger issue is the appearance of being lax. Even if they do eventually enforce the license terms, if it takes a long time to do so, then others aren't going to take it seriously. Personally I clamp down hard and fast on people who violate the GPL on my own work, I would hope that LL would clamp down hard too.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Jason Giglio <[email protected]> wrote: > Gordon Wendt wrote: >> If You haven't already then pop an email off to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> as mentioned in the massively article >> and hope for the best. On the broader issue, I'm no lawyer but I'm sure >> the people in LL's legal team realize that selective or nonenforcement >> of their rights makes it tougher for them to enforce their rights when >> they choose to > > You are probably thinking of trademark law. Copyright does not have > much of a concept of laches, because it has an express limitations period. > > A court might not be sympathetic if you allowed infringement just to > increase the damages; such as waiting until a work you knew was > infringing hit public release to get more out of the lawsuit... but > other than that, you don't lose much by not enforcing a copyright promptly. > > -Jason > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
