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MDY v. Blizzard is basically the situation you describe. They were found liable for contributory copyright infringement.
by mukyu 16y ago
MDY v. Blizzard is basically the situation you describe.
They were found liable for contributory copyright infringement.
- rprasad 16y agoBasically, but not exactly, or even all that similar. With the law, it's the little details that matter the most. The reason most lawyers on HN have refrained from arguing the parent issue is that it can go both ways. Copyright law is intentionally ambiguous, and court rulings are all over the place. There's really no knowing how the court will rule until it actually does.
- mukyu 16y agoI am not ignorant of how laws work. I have spent a lot of time understanding copyright law and in particular copyright licenses. In my post, I did not even comment on the wordpress issue at hand or even put forth an argument regarding it. I was only commenting on tzs's proposed scenario trying to fill in what I saw as a gap.
- tzs 16y agoIt was that kind of case I was thinking of when I put in step 2, make sure the license of P allows the user to combined P with other works. Blizzard has a EULA that prohibits the WoW user from using software such as MDY's, so step 2 of my advice would tell MDY to give up.