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Infringement and the US Customs Service

Infringement and the US Customs Service

Posted Aug 14, 2008 17:21 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition (New Media and Technology) by rickmoen
Parent article: Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition (New Media and Technology)

Now that a court has ruled that copying without license compliance is infringement, copyleft developers will be able to use the US Customs Service to seize infringing embedded devices at the port of entry. There's an incentive to come into compliance for you.


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Infringement and the US Customs Service

Posted Aug 14, 2008 18:07 UTC (Thu) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link]

(/me is awestruck at dmarti's bureaucracy-hacking skilz.)

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