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Damages

Posted Dec 4, 2003 7:15 UTC (Thu) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698)
In reply to: Damages by andrel
Parent article: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract

Why can't the judge decide forfeiture of the proprietary source code is the appropriate penalty?
Because that is not one of the remedies for infringement set forth in 17 U.S.C. 504.


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Damages

Posted Dec 4, 2003 17:23 UTC (Thu) by andrel (guest, #5166) [Link]

But forefeiture is one of the remedies set forth in 17 U.S.C. 506. My question still stands.

Damages

Posted Dec 5, 2003 22:18 UTC (Fri) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]

Forfeiture of their rights to use the work they infringed upon. Not forfeiture of any of their own copyrights.

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