Thomas Dalton wrote:
Remember that
it's expensive to the plaintiff as well as to the
defendant.
Ok, it only takes one *rich person*. Point stands.
They don't get rich by taking stupid cases to their extreme through the
court systems.
What is the
basis of this guess? Most people who've reviewed CC-BY-SA
and compared it to GFDL see lots of similarities.
It's a guess, it doesn't really have much of a basis, just gut
feeling. I would have called it an estimate otherwise.
Does Judge Judy accept copyright cases?
Why would I care about the plaintiff's costs?
There are plenty of
people in this world with more money than sense.
Of course. Let them be the ones to beat their heads against a stone wall.
As for registering
copyright, isn't that US law? We're not talking about the US here. Do
France and Germany have similar requirements?
Even in the US registration is not a prerequisite for owning
copyrights. Getting rid of that was a requirement on the US before
becoming a part of some international treaties. Registration is only
required for sustaining certain cases in court.
It helps in
analysis of this question to be familiar with how
copyright litigation actual works, and what it actually costs
plaintiffs to bring one.
It costs the plaintiffs money. Something lots of people have and the
WMF doesn't.
That all strikes me as planning for failure. At least the kids
who
visited the confessional with hypothetically impossible schemes in the
George Carlin skit had the good sense to know that their schemes weren't
real. Not acting because someone has speculated about the most
improbable of lawsuits is a good way of getting nothing done. One still
needs to keep in mind the maxim that it is easier to get forgiveness
than to get permission.
Ec