[Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 22:19:53 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/9 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
>> So, they don't care about their own copyright law.
>
> Common law is very much driven by legal precedent. Looking to see what
> similar legal systems have done is a fairly common approach.
>
> That said Kenya allows for up 6 years of jail time for some forms of
> copyright infringement (and two for others) so I suggest it is
> probably a good idea to take Kenyan law seriously.

You don't need to Serengeti and explain it to Maasai people. Try with
suburbs of Nairobi :) There are parts of the world which really don't
give a shit for the copyright law :)




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