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I'm no lawyer, but don't you usually have to show damages?

• papercrane 5y ago
  Statutory damages can apply, but in the US statutory damages for copyright infringement require registering the copyright prior to the infringement.
• R0b0t1 5y ago
  Damages would be loss of revenue. He was deprived of the ability to negotiate terms of use for payment. This is why the GPL is more developer friendly than other licenses. If a business doesn't like the GPL you can offer to relicense your code, ... for money. And money is the restitution you seek when the license is violated.
  • profmonocle 5y ago
    I'm curious how damages would be calculated in a case like this. Obviously you can't get away with saying "I would have charged them $10 billion for this code, so that's what they should owe me." But on the flipside, should they be able to say they wouldn't have been willing to pay anything for it, therefore they owe zero?
    • R0b0t1 5y ago
      I am curious as well. Since it's not a typical work for hire relationship, it could be a (modest) percentage of profits, or a business contracting fee of ~$500k or so.