Re: Justice draws nigh

[Hyman Rosen]

On 5/12/2010 4:34 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> You have to have sufficient overlap.  But it would be pointless to
> demand registration of some "exact version" when the defendant has
> modified the original version. Of course the plaintiff can't register
> the exact version resulting from the defendant's modifications.

I don't believe that in the cases mounted by the SFLC the
defendants distributed a version they themselves modified.
SimplexGrinnel v. ISP considers some of these multi-version
and derivative work registration issues,
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=SimplexGrinnell+LP+v.+Integrated+Systems+%26+Power,+Inc.&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholart>
but I'm no lawyer to try to figure out which way the court
is going. Have at it if you want.