Re: The SFLC has pleaded their clients right out of court

[Hyman Rosen]

On 4/15/2010 6:34 PM, RJack wrote:
> The value of a nonexclusive copyright license like the GPL
> is called its "contractual interest".

Something like this:
<http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/sun-to-acquire-mysql.html>
    SANTA CLARA, CA January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA)
    today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire
    MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's
    fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in
    total consideration.

> What US law does not recognize is the value of "moral rights".

You have apparently failed to notice 17 USC 106A.
<http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/usc_sec_17_00000106---A000-.html>
    § 106A. Rights of certain authors to attribution and integrity
    ... (a bunch of stuff) ...
    (b) Scope and Exercise of Rights.—
    Only the author of a work of visual art has the rights conferred by
    subsection (a) in that work, whether or not the author is the copyright
    owner.