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Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:59:12 -0000
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On 8/12/2010 11:30 AM, RJack wrote:
Do GNUtians think this kind of propaganda garbage by Bradley Kuhn
and the Software Freedom Conservancy won't eventually be exposed?

Fortunately, there is nothing to be exposed, except perhaps the
strained logic of the Usenet cranks. The SFLC's complaint,
<http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2009/busybox-complaint-2009-12-14.pdf>
says that it is

    SOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY, INC. and
    ERIK ANDERSEN,
                        Plaintiffs
            -against-
    BEST BUY CO.,INC., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS
    ...

and Erik Andersen is a copyright owner in the infringed software.

In the RIAA lawsuit complaint,
<http://w2.eff.org/IP/P2P/sample_riaa_complaint.pdf>,
we have

    CAPITOL RECORS, INC., a Delaware
    corporation; SONY MUSIC
    ENTERTAINMENT INC., a Delaware
    corporation; BMG MUSIC, a New York
    ...
                     Plaintiffs
          vs.
    XXXXXXXXXXXXX
                     Defendant

and it continues

    Plaintiffs are ... the copyright owners or licensees ... with
    respect to certain copyrighted sound recordings, including but
    not limited to the copyrighted sound recordings identified in
    Exhibit A attached hereto ...

where Exhibit A is a list of songs, one or two for each plaintiff.
So assuming the RIAA lawyers are not also drunk and crazy, we see
that in a copyright lawsuit it is not required that each plaintiff
be the owner of each infringed copyright. Thus, having the SFLC as
a party to the suit does not harm it, as long as one plaintiff is
a copyright holder.


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