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Quick note on break from work.
Final Decision
(Can I say how much I despise JBig compression? Of course I can. Will anyone reading this have any idea what I'm talking about? Of course not.)
It was indeed ruled infringing. However, "a reference guide based on existing books" was not; just this case. At a quick overview, he seems to have quoted a hair too much, and not have arranged things in quite a unique enough way. In LJ's Fandom_Lawyers, Heidi8 points out that "they only awarded damages of $750 - the minimum allowed per statute - for each of the nine books."
(Sometime soon, I'll have a searchable version of the PDF available if anyone would like that.)
( Excerpts inside )
Final Decision
(Can I say how much I despise JBig compression? Of course I can. Will anyone reading this have any idea what I'm talking about? Of course not.)
It was indeed ruled infringing. However, "a reference guide based on existing books" was not; just this case. At a quick overview, he seems to have quoted a hair too much, and not have arranged things in quite a unique enough way. In LJ's Fandom_Lawyers, Heidi8 points out that "they only awarded damages of $750 - the minimum allowed per statute - for each of the nine books."
(Sometime soon, I'll have a searchable version of the PDF available if anyone would like that.)
( Excerpts inside )