[wplug] What is this World Intellectual Property Concept that RMS is pushing?

[Burt E Reany]

  That's interesting - I thought that our federal government was charging
american companies for acts of bribery that occurred in foreign
jurisdictions, by foreign nationals.  I guess that I must not understand
the full situation.


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                      Duncan Hutty                                                                                                    
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On 04/05/2005 11:09 PM, Zachary Uram wrote:
> would international IP disputes be settled by World Court?
> how do you enforce IP laws in countries which don't recognize them?
> to take analogy from computer security you have black hat attackers
> who can attack US sites at will without fear of US extradition and
prosecution.
> how does one recup financial costs from such an incident from legal
perspective?
>
On an individual or corporate basis, you can't enforce laws in countries
where those laws do not exist. Frequently this is a good thing. Imagine
if the laws of such countries as North Korea, China, dare I say it,
France were enforceable in the USA.

On a long term basis, the required approach is international or domestic
pressure to change the law, which is what we see here.
--
Duncan Hutty
System Administrator, ECE
Carnegie Mellon University

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