ok - first mistake - stop thinking of this stuff as "intellectual Property" that is an oxymoron and an intentional misrepresentation designed to get in the way of understanding the real problem. Any recourse would be due to "Intangibles with Privileges" - which should convey the idea that if you want any benefit you better apply to your government for the benefit >>> ahead of time. Anyone that has tried to apply double entry accounting to IP will quickly realize that that tool wasn't made for that stuff 'cuse it ain't stuff. But I digress, now for the Bad Idea™ part - remember the way-back machine at archive.org? It will likely show the original copyright notice and it should be easy enough to craft a takedown letter to the right ISP - h*ll just plaster 'em all, let the devil sort it. This will not come out well, your young friend needs to learn when to take a lesson and move on.
after a couple of years, he will have a collection of boilerplate - NDA, non-compete, non-circumvent, bonded non-disclosure, IP ownership & reversion, Workproduct as Free software release, etc etc. actually a collection of these things might be useful.. hello LOPSA? Tell your young charge "get over it - move on - have a real life with real property." and never hand over the root password.... :) what? John, I should have been a Philadelphia Lawyer - go fords! Happy 4th everyone - h*ll of a place we've got here! enjoy it. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On >> Behalf Of Brandon S Allbery KF8NH >> >> If >> he has any written records that can be used to prove his claim, he can >> start >> by billing them and potentially end in small claims court. > > Small claims court is only useful if you both agree that there was an > agreement, and the only dispute is interpretting the words of the agreement. > > Let's suppose I bought a car from a used car dealer (this is a true story) > and had a signed purchase & sale agreement that I would pay $100 deposit on > the car and return with $3000 check from the bank, and they would return my > $100 deposit. And then they refused to give me the $100 deposit back. They > said "we mailed it to you already" and "we won't ever refund that." And > after a few months of back and forth, I brought it to court, and they > refused to show up for the subpoena, so I won by default and got the court > order for payment, and they simply chose to ignore it. > > (This was when I was young enough that $100 was a really big deal to me.) > > That's the end of the road. There's nothing left to do. If you can't get > them to agree to it, even if you go to court, there's no way to enforce the > decision, even when it's court ordered. The value is simply too small to > put a lien on their assets or in any way force payment against their will. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
