Why would Google be liable under Canadian copyright law for not reacting fast enough on DMCA notices from small companies? As far as I know, Canada does not have a notice and takedown system (yet?).
They have the same leg the GPL has, and it's one that's well established by the courts by now. It's called copyright law. You either adhere to the license or to the limitations of copyright law (which is usually stricter than the CC/GPL licenses) or you'll be found guilty of copyright infringement in a court of law. At 150k USD per infringement, that's a lot of leg to stand on, believe you me. :)
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Why would Google be liable under Canadian copyright law for not reacting fast enough on DMCA notices from small companies? As far as I know, Canada does not have a notice and takedown system (yet?).
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@by senshikaze, Jul 8th, 2010 @ 6:40am
They have the same leg the GPL has, and it's one that's well established by the courts by now. It's called copyright law. You either adhere to the license or to the limitations of copyright law (which is usually stricter than the CC/GPL licenses) or you'll be found guilty of copyright infringement in a court of law. At 150k USD per infringement, that's a lot of leg to stand on, believe you me. :)