Do Publishing Companies Enforce Copyright Infringement Lawsuits?
100642
Ignorance of the law is no excuse and no defense.  The oopyright statement is WRITTEN RIGHT IN THE MANUALS your friend was selling!  \n\nAs they have access to the records of the sales via eBay, and know who did it, yes, they will most likely  pursue to matter thru the courts to seek satisfaction if your friend does not cooperate. They are not just being mean, but they need to protect their property, whether it was one copy or one million copies.   It was not your friend's property to sell, and the profits he made from the sales should be restituted to the company, as well as the amount they had to expend to get the money back.
456263
Beware! there are laws against plagiarism.
531454
I have never hear of any restrictions on lending books, my concern would be if you implied that it was ok for the customer to copy any of the material.\n\nI been told that it is not consider Fair Use to copy material for business use, but that is ok WITHIN LIMITS to copy material for personal use.
626386
Because of copywrite laws
832583
its coz of copyright laws
71282
Copyrights protect people's creativity from infringement and piracy. Copyrights guarantee that your creativity can never be attributed to someone else other than you, it also gives you the right to introduce your work to the public for the first time and the right to prvent others from modifying your work in a way that would spoil your reputation or goodwill as a writer. Copyrights entitles the holder of the right to receive reasonable royalties from anyone who exploits his creativity. The financial rights associated with copyrights in the United States lsat for the lifetime of the holder of the right and 100 years after his death.\nYou can learn more about copyrights from the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization www.wipo.org
253259
You're probably going to have to pay.  Libraries will RARELY accept a replacement copy, because they partially depend on revenue from late fines.\n\nPay it.  Libraries are underfunded and need the money.
1001710
because you could sue them after if they sue it without permission so no one will ever see it.    you have to send it to a publishing house AFTER you get copyrighted etc....and then let them shop it around iof its any good..if not..it ends uyp with all hte otehr millions of wasted pieces of paper
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Each situation is different, of course, but here's what could happen\n\nRE: Trademarks\n\nPlaintiff may be entitled to recover defendant's profits, any damages & the costs of being infringed upon (i.e. lost profits, compensation, etc.)\n\nRE: Copyrights\n\nInjunctions, impounding, damages & profits, costs & attorney's fees, etc.\n\nHope that helps!
604678
It is possibly and probably illegal, although it depends on what you're taking. Regardless of whether or not there's a copyright notice, the text of the website is copyright of the author of the text or owner of the site. There is a fair use exception to copyright; again, that gets into the amount and substantiality of what you're taking. Giving credit to the original author doesn't matter if you're infringing; it's still infringement.\n\nHere's a link about the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which explains more about some of the issues involved: \nhttp://www.keytlaw.com/Copyrights/dmca.htm
603837
Microsoft Publisher is a program you pay for. The copies that are for free are illegal to download. Go ahead and use limewire, but i don't know if Microsoft is gonna come after you....
1086711
you will be charged by proper authorities with the violation of copyright law if caught......
313649
Nope.  It's trademark infringement.  And it's very, very bad.  Why?  Because whatever money you make will be lost (and then some) when they sue you.
1012415
Yes and no.   If you got the patent you can fight off imitators by threatening them with a patent infringement suit.   But to actually take them to court is so unbelievably expensive that most people settle out of court.   Patent infringement suits would only be successful if your patent is very well written (so use a pro) and theirs is clearly an infringement (and they would use a pro as well).   So a big company might just infringe then call your bluff - they can afford bigger and better lawyers than you, you can't afford to sue, so they expect you to roll over.   Settle out of court, earn a royalty, and be satisfied.
7257
thats mean unless there selling them for profet.\nyou kno they`ll get a fine of $50,000 every copy they find?
1171563
They are not required to enforce the decisions of the court.\nI would suggest looking into putting a lean against the company assets until it is paid.  \nNot sure how it works but if they don't pay, you could end up owning some of the company.
180835
There is some flexibility for titles of Literature as well as songs.  Unfortunately if an author sues and goes to court, there is a chance that the other author will have to change the title.  If it is a similar title from an ancient text, there isn't a claim for plagarism, because the original author is dead and can't claim infringement.