Re: Tools: Tracking down copyright violations (Take III)

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Wendy wrote: <<Not to be too much of a downer on this, but in order  
for the courts to intervene, there really has to be a significant  
amount of damages...>>

Not necessarily. First, if you have formally registered the  
copyright, you're entitled to statutory damages (which are high)  
without having to prove any economic losses or other damage. (I have  
a friend who used this successfully to claim several thousand dollars  
from a client who refused to pay him for his work but used the work  
anyway.) Second, the threat of legal action is usually enough to make  
someone back down when they're in the wrong. If you haven't formally  
registered copyright, you can force someone to comply with the law  
and depublish your property, but you have to prove damages if you  
want to claim any money.


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