Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition (New Media and Technology) [LWN.net]

Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition (New Media and Technology)

Posted Aug 14, 2008 12:33 UTC (Thu) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
Parent article: Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition (New Media and Technology)

The original ruling was so bad, this really should be a no-brainer.  I am amazed that there
are judges that can't see that copyright doesn't exist only to extract money from others.

If I edited a Hollywood movie to remove the credits and then sold copies of it, I'm sure the
same judges would see that as copyright infringement.

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Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable asCopyright Condition (New Media and Technology)

Posted Aug 15, 2008 23:58 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

I am amazed that there are judges that can't see that copyright doesn't exist only to extract money from others.
If I edited a Hollywood movie to remove the credits and then sold copies of it, I'm sure the same judges would see that as copyright infringement.

I think you missed your analogy. To be analogous to the case the court was considering, it has to be an independent film that the producer was giving away (I mean distributing free DVDs of it). Otherwise, calling it copyright infringement is consistent with "copyright exists only to extract money from others."