Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:51:30PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
>> Only for some pretty strange values of "worthless". AFAIU the only >> legal effect of the notice requirements you cite is as defined by >> subsection (d): if a compliant notice is present, a defendant is >> excluded from the defense that he did not understand that the work was >> copyrighted. > Well, isn't prohibiting the "I didn't know it is copyrighted" defence > the only legal effect of having the notice nowadays, anyway? Yes. What I mean is that even a notice without a year will make it much easier for the plaintiff to shoot that defence down than it would be in the no-notice-at-all case - even if he has to do a slight bit more than just point to a rule of procedure. -- Henning Makholm "The compile-time type checker for this language has proved to be a valuable filter which traps a significant proportion of programming errors." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]