On 10/12/05, Stephen Filler <sfiller[_at_]nylawline.com> wrote:
>
> Congress could. and should, help the vast majority of writers
> and artists by providing a state court remedy for small copyright damage
> claims.
Even if there are remedy at small claims state court, the location may be too far for copyright holders that expenses for flying to the location of where infringement occurs and for other things such as hotel and restaurant may be greater than the remedy that the copyright holders hope to get. For example, a copyright holder lives in Maine and I living in San Diego infringe his copyright. He has to sue me in San Diego's small claims court, if he is willing to waste his time and money for all expenses for flying to San Diego and staying there.
Copyright holders need to be a little relaxed and more pragmatic. If the infringements are too trivial that the cost for getting remedy is greater than the remedy itself, they need to learn how to ignore them. Providing them a way to use small claims court for copyright infringement will not help them much and only make the legal system more complex.
Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 4,824
Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Tue Oct 18 2005 - 01:40:01 GMT
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