[WikiEN-l] Google Books class action lawsuit

[wjhonson at aol.com]

And I'd like to add contract violation *may* be illegal, there are 
loopholes large enough to swim an elephant through, which is why 
lawyers like contracts.  No such thing as an unbreakable contract.

You may have heard about these lawyers that are suing mortgage 
companies because they didn't explain the mortgage clearly enough ?  An 
interesting point, most websites, don't actually make you read the 
license before you start using the site.  I'm not even sure where on 
Google Books I would look to see what my allowed uses are.



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 7:33 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books class action lawsuit










On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Contract violation *is* illegal.

Actionable != illegal. The big difference is that you could walk into
a police station and tell them that you broke a contract or terms of
service, and they'd tell you to have a nice day. Likewise, copyright
infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one. The police do not
pursue the matter, the allegedly infringed party does.

Steve

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