On 4/12/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
I'm uncertain of what the legal position is if the owner of a work insists that "since we require everyone accessing this work to agree to a contract, this copy must be illegal" but fails to identify who was in breach of their contract and thus prove the breach of contract.
There is also a question of how binding a contract is on third parties. If you break your contract by passing the image to someone else to publish, only you are in breach of contract.
Indeed. There are some instances in law when third parties are brought into a suit and ordered to stop, and others where they're not. Although I've read extensively on the subjects of copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret law, I am not a lawyer and have little knowledge of contracts law, and thus what the likely outcome there is.
-Matt