[sldev] Continued GPL violations by Openlifegrid.com - Options?

[Tateru Nino]

It seems to me, though, that because there are multiple copyright 
holders here (due to patches, contribution agreements, etc) - copyright 
holders *other* than Linden Lab will likely seek to take action if the 
Lab doesn't tell its fellow copyright holders what action it is taking 
or doesn't take any soon.

That's the vibe I'm getting from all of this at the moment.

If it were me, I'd probably have shot off a C&D already, but I'm old and 
tired and my copyrights get infringed many times a year, so perhaps I'm 
less patient on the matter than some. After the first couple of hundred 
infringements or so you tend to dispense with the notion that someone's 
cashing-in on your work out of ignorance, or that they're planning to 
comply but aren't quite there yet. Especially when someone else makes 
more money from your own work than you are :)




Jason Giglio wrote:
> Gordon Wendt wrote:
>    
>> If You haven't already then pop an email off to licensing at lindenlab.com
>> <mailto:licensing at lindenlab.com>  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
>    
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