Re: The SFLC has pleaded their clients right out of court

[RJack]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> On 4/15/2010 6:34 PM, RJack wrote:
> > The value of a nonexclusive copyright license like the GPL
>  > is called its "contractual interest".
>
> Something like this:
> <http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/sun-to-acquire-mysql.html>
>     SANTA CLARA, CA January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA)
>     today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire
>     MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's
>     fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in
>     total consideration.
>
>  > What US law does not recognize is the value of "moral rights".
>
> You have apparently failed to notice 17 USC 106A.
> <http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/usc_sec_17_00000106---A000-.html>
>     § 106A. Rights of certain authors to attribution and integrity
>     ... (a bunch of stuff) ...
>     (b) Scope and Exercise of Rights.—
>     Only the author of a work of visual art has the rights conferred by
>     subsection (a) in that work, whether or not the author is the copyright
>     owner.

Yup. "Only the author of a work of visual art...".
ROFL

Sincerely,
RJack :)
> of a work of visual art