Re: Question on liability for falsely asserting

>> This could be particularly interesting in cases where, for example,
>> a database provider (not mentioning any Lexis in particular) puts a
>> notice on a work that actually belongs to me. Couldn't it? (More
>> interesting than the PD case because the public domain has even more
>> difficulty launching an action than I do.)

Under US law, Mike, that's out-and-out infringement (i.e., should that nameless entity appropriate/publish your work--whether or not a false notice is slapped on it by the evildoer). If a third party should be discouraged from using the work by that notice, that's as it should be, albeit for the wrong reason.

--DS Received on Wed May 31 2006 - 23:20:31 GMT