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Trademarks and to a lesser extent copyrights are contingent on the rights holders defending their properties and rights. Courts have invalidated trademarks and
by Dalewyn 4y ago
Trademarks and to a lesser extent copyrights are contingent on the rights holders defending their properties and rights. Courts have invalidated trademarks and copyrights due to insufficient defensive actions from their rights holders. DRM is just one of many methods that a rights holder can defend their properties and rights with.
This isn't to say DRM is acceptable; most examples aren't. But it is legally incompatible to argue that a rights holder can have trademarks/copyrights but should not defend them.
Obligatory IANAL.
- boolemancer 4y agoThis may be true of trademarks, but I've never heard of any requirement to defend copyrights, nor have I heard of any courts invalidating copyrights because of a lack of defending them.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 4y agoIn the interests of treaty harmonization, courts have even gone so far as to reinstate expired copyrights. They've stolen from the public domain, and given those works back to corporations who didn't even have anything to do with creating them in the first place.