On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:37:53AM -0800, Sean Kellogg wrote: > The laws that are applied are the place where the alleged violation occurred. > > If I break U.S. Copyright Law in Europe, there is no case. U.S. laws have no > force in Europe. If I break U.S. Copyright Law in the United States with a > some European court in the Choice of Venue clause, the European court would > apply U.S. Law. If you find that a little bit off, you are beginning to see > why Choice of Venue clauses are regularilly thrown out in an international > setting (court's really don't like to interpret the laws of other > sovereigns).
You may find it interesting to note that they reject choice of venue for several of the same reasons that we do. (As a rule of thumb, anything that a court would throw out for being overbearing is going to be non-free). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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