[Coco] Copyright

[Luis Fernández]

Dear Aarom

A friend in Venezuela, had a shop in 1995, sales of software, starting the cds, and anemployee was selling copied cds windows, scsi drives on the market first, I remembera pinochle 1X

And the BSA (Microsoft in Venezuela), here it sued civilly and criminally, and won, being the owner, gave him a punishment of 1 year of presentation in court, you were not arrested, but only 17 days, (organized crime investigation )

Since 2000 and the BSA, and Microsoft, are not in Venezuela, I have understood,because a law of Chavez, to help overcome the Venezuelan and learn without limitation, to leave the 3rd world, and this allows to obtain information any means, or something.
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> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:36:54 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Copyright
> 
> I never realized copyright infringement could be a federal crime.   
> That's a tougher punishment than patent infringement.  If I recall  
> properly (which I might not), a patent allows the patent holder to  
> prevent others from making, using, or selling that which was  
> patented.  It's up to the patent holder to:  (a) realize infringers  
> exist, (b) find them, and (c) sue them.  It would be a civil matter.
>             - Aaron
> 
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Steve Bjork wrote:
> 
> > Sorry Luis, but you don't understand copyright law.
> >
> > Once something is copyrighted, it does not fall out of copyright for  
> > a long long time.
> > And Beatles songs can not be used freely.  They are protect under  
> > copyright law.
> >
> > As a programmer for almost 40 years, I have written a tons of  
> > software with most of it having a copyright on it.
> > I also have to protected my future code by fighting to keep my  
> > rights on past software safe.  This includes my CoCo software.
> >
> > To make this point clear,  all CoCo that I worked and was sold for  
> > the CoCo is still under copyright protection.  Anyone selling or  
> > disturbing my CoCo software without a license is breaking the law.   
> > Please note ....
> >
> > *It's always at least a civil matter (a tort). 17 U.S.C. 501(b)  
> > details
> > the mechanisms by which an owner of a copyright may file a civil suit,
> > and 28 U.S.C. 1338 expressly refers to civil actions arising under the
> > copyright act.
> >
> > However, under certain circumstances, it may also be a federal  
> > crime. A
> > copyright infringement is subject to criminal prosecution if  
> > infringement
> > is willful and for purposes of commercial advantage or private  
> > financial
> > gain. 17 U.S.C. 506(a). If the offense consists of the reproduction or
> > distribution, during any 180-day period, of 10 or more copies having a
> > retail value of more than $2,500, the offense is a felony;  
> > otherwise, the
> > offense is a misdemeanor. 18 U.S.C. 2319.
> >
> > As a side note, although 18 U.S.C. 2319 purports to prescribe the
> > penalties for criminal infringement, all crimes covered by Title 18  
> > have
> > their penalties determined by the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, another
> > part of Title 18.*
> >
> > Steve Bjork
> > SRB Software
> >
> > On 1/13/2011 2:22 PM, Luis Fernández wrote:
> >> Even the music of the Beatles and is free from copyright
> >> and can be used freely, and that is not how many years pass
> >>
> >> When things coco  release, free?
> >
> >
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