>In my opinion, this is the area of copyright law most in need of
>reform. Right now, a huge percentage of infringments are
>unremediable because the infringed works are unregistered and the
>amount of actual damages cannot justify the expense of an expedited
>registration and federal court litigation.
If I read this correctly, the concern here is works where the author or publisher didn't bother to register the copyright, presumably because they didn't think the work was worth the effort to do so. Then the work is infringed, and they still don't think the work is worth enough to register and sue. So what's the problem?
Copyright is not supposed to be airtight. This looks to me like the law is working just like we'd want it to, preventing nuisance suits for insignificant infringements.
R's,
John
Received on Fri Oct 14 2005 - 00:40:00 GMT
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