On 8/12/2010 11:30 AM, RJack wrote:
Do GNUtians think this kind of propaganda garbage by Bradley Kuhn
and the Software Freedom Conservancy won't eventually be exposed?
Fortunately, there is nothing to be exposed, except perhaps the
strained logic of the Usenet cranks. The SFLC's complaint,
<http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2009/busybox-complaint-2009-12-14.pdf>
says that it is
SOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY, INC. and ERIK ANDERSEN, Plaintiffs
-against- BEST BUY CO.,INC., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS ...
and Erik Andersen is a copyright owner in the infringed software.
In the RIAA lawsuit complaint,
<http://w2.eff.org/IP/P2P/sample_riaa_complaint.pdf>, we have
CAPITOL RECORS, INC., a Delaware corporation; SONY MUSIC
ENTERTAINMENT INC., a Delaware corporation; BMG MUSIC, a New York
... Plaintiffs vs. XXXXXXXXXXXXX Defendant
and it continues
Plaintiffs are ... the copyright owners or licensees ... with respect
to certain copyrighted sound recordings, including but not limited to
the copyrighted sound recordings identified in Exhibit A attached
hereto ...
where Exhibit A is a list of songs, one or two for each plaintiff. So
assuming the RIAA lawyers are not also drunk and crazy, we see that
in a copyright lawsuit it is not required that each plaintiff be the
owner of each infringed copyright. Thus, having the SFLC as a party
to the suit does not harm it, as long as one plaintiff is a copyright
holder.