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Re: OMG!

Im Artikel <20010507.181001.841148365.13435@ip148.interprice.vi> schrieb
"Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@interprice.com>:


> Im Artikel <RCxJ6.20265$Aj1.8134559@typhoon2.ba-dsg.net> schrieb "Frank
> Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>:
> 
>> Attorney's fees and costs may be awarded at the discretion of the court
>> (17 USC 505)
> Yes of course. I only speculate that this discretion would not be
> exercised in such a case.

On further reading, it seems to me that unless the software in question
was registered with the Copyright Office, that there is no possibility
of statutory damages or attorney's fees being awarded. (17 USC 412)

If that is the case, then for unregistered software, damages would be
limited to actual damages, which would be nothing.

How many of the old programs on Asimov do you think were registered with
the Copyright Office?

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