On 4/3/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 4/3/07, Nyenyec N wrote:
But one could say, that Hungarian copyright law
doesn't make it
illegal to upload these images to servers located in the United
States. By doing so you're not breaking any laws.
I'm reasonably confident that you will not find a single jurisdiction
with effective copyright law where the act of uploading to someone
elses website isn't considered a reserved right under copyright law
(in most places it will likely be consider just another form of
copying, although some laws may special case it in order to have extra
harshness for infringements created online).
Greg, i'm not sure I understand you here (Speaker of English as a
foreign language ;-)) so let me try and rephrase what I understood and
please correct me if I'm wrong.
you seem to be saying that there is probably no juridiction that will
allow the uploader to break the local copyright law by letting them
argue that they're uploading on servers that are set under a different
set of local laws and run in another jurisdiction.
In clear, if you live in Hungary and are subject to Hungarian laws,
uploading copyrighted material on an American server where it is
allowed won't keep you from being sued in your own country. Is that
right?
In theory, I think that Greg is correct. In practice it is unlikely to
be enforceable unless the Hungarian individual makes a big show of
uploading this copyrighted Hungarian material. If the Hungarian is
posting under a pseudonym it is unimaginable that a US court would
enforce a Hungarian court's order to reveal who was uploading Hungarian
protected material when that material is not protected in the United States.
It's always important to keep in mind the distinction between a strict
wording of the law, and situations which would require enormous efforts
to prosecute over very little. Cost-effectiveness matters.
Ec