Re: WIPO Copyright Treaty Article 11 & Grammar

Bob Schwartz <shebam[_at_]access.digex.net> wrote:
>
> This comes close to declaring that in order to be in violation of this
> provision, the offender must infringe a copyright. This is something to
> which the backers of the proposal will not agree. Hence, in my opinion,
> the reason for the original circularity.
>

But *of course* the provision means that offenders must infringe copyrights. The only innovation of the WIPO treaty was to require legislation allowing copyright plaintiffs to go after those who *contribute* to infringement. [US law already does this, of course].

Mark Lemley
<mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu> Received on Sun Apr 26 1998 - 18:46:18 GMT