On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:56:47PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:44:39PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:44:56PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > Henning Makholm writes: > > > > A bicycle trip to my local courthouse: DKK 2, including write-offs on the > > > > bicycle. A trip to some court in America: Tens of thousands of DKKs. > > > > > > If I were to sue you for infringing the copyright on my GPL software I > > > would file in US district court. > > > > Assuming it's a nuisance lawsuit, I would ignore it (or file a written > > statement to this effect), and let the judgement lapse (assuming the > > court itself didn't just acknowledge my point and throw it out), since > > I have no intention to enter US territory at any point. When you filed > > in a UK court to attempt to enforce the US judgement, I would raise > > the defence that the claim was nonsense. > > This is sort of like saying "I block you with my force field!" Saying the > claim is nonsense if John has good evidence that you are infringing on his > copyright isn't going to get you far. Not really interested in the case where you actually did infringe on the license. I don't think it's worthwhile to worry about whether we discriminate against such people. Nuisance lawsuits are the canonical example of the important part here. That's the scenario where choice-of-venue is bad. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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