On 5/3/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
If they do DMCA Wired, then Wired get to go first!
According to [[Universal v. Reimerdes]], DeCSS was a single case that included all defendants. Does one party 'go first' in cases like this?
MPAA would loose nothing by including Wikipedia in a suit against Wired even if we only linked to the Wired article that published it, after all that was the crux of the latter part of the DeCSS case: 2600 deep linking to other publishers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_v._Reimerdes
Also, do we have an obligation to mirrors to not include content that could put them in hot water ? Answers.com is currently proudly displaying the DeCSS descrambler image...
On 5/4/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Near simultaneous filings are legal and logisticaly possible.
If we publish it because Wired is the source and MPAA filed the cases separately, is it reasonable to assume that a separate Wikipedia case would be stayed pending the resolution of a Wired case?
-- John