Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/22

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Fair use
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Sun Feb 22 12:23:36 2009
References: <200902212348.n1LNlY8R031403@server1.waverley.reid.org>, <2D61E862-572C-4793-8AAB-858484B8FB19@optonline.net>, <D25FDD4E-6782-4087-AEB5-D188A9DC501D@charter.net>

Quoth the Slobodan Dimitrov :

> money changing hands as an accommodation over the
> perceived  
> infringement usually solves most problems. It's rarely the principle
> of the thing.

With all due respect, this is a question of commercial law.  Ninety-
nine percent of the time, money changing hands pretty much IS the 
principle of the thing.

Yes, of course there are cases where an infringer is an entity to 
whom an artist wouldn't license work for any amount of money, but 
most infringements are a user deciding they're not willing to pay the 
fee if they don't have to, and most legal actions are done to 
convince them that they DO have to.





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Replies: Reply from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] Re: Fair use)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: Fair use)
Message from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] Re: Fair use)