Re: Re: False and Deceptive Trade Practices (was Acknowledging Samples)

>On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, John T. Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Might a person who claims copyright over a work which is in the public
> > domain run afoul of trade deception laws? (Example: I publish a work by
> > Shakespeare and place a copyright notice on it, perhaps with the added
> > language "warning" that any reproduction without my authorization is an
> > infringement.)

At 05:47 PM 9/21/2006, Terry wrote:

>It would certainly violate section 506(c) of the Copyright Act.
But is it not also the case that no one has ever tried to enforce that law? At least, I think I recall someone on this list claiming such.

David Dailey Received on Fri Sep 22 2006 - 20:05:30 GMT