On 31/05/15 00:10, Riley Baird wrote:
On Sat, 30 May 2015 23:24:53 +0200 Ángel González<keisial@gmail.com> wrote:IMHO you would be the one responsible for enforcing the license...Exactly. So, if a work is originally licensed under GPL-2+ and Person A makes a copy and gives it to Person B under GPL-3. Now consider that Person B gives a copy to Person C under GPL-2+. Person A can't enforce the original copyright holder's copyrights. I find it difficult to believe that the original copyright holder would enforce Person A's license.unless you also granted (delegated?) the right of enforcing the work license to someone else.I'm not sure that you can grant the right of enforcing the license to someone else,
Copyright collecting societies do so.
I suspect that for legal litigation you may need to represent the copyright owner. Also note that if authors gave that power to everyone, anyone attempting to exercise that right would still need the author in order to prove that the author didn't also provide aotherwise why wouldn't copyleft authors just let give everyone the right to enforce their license?
propietary license to the infringer,¹ so it wouldn't be that useful.Usually, copyright collecting societies are the only ones entitled to license that author's work, and their position when detecting infringement is thus quite different.
¹ unless they also gave up the right to ever license it under different terms, perhaps. A
very bad idea IMHO.