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Thread #143777   Message #3324067
Posted By: Richard Bridge
17-Mar-12 - 08:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christopher Tappin
Subject: RE: BS: Christopher Tappin
There are arguments about whether enabling copyright infringment is also an infringing act, and the way the wind is blowing, judicially, seems to be in that direction in most jurisdictions.

I have never liked the argument that an act, in relation to copyright, is done where the effects are felt rather than where it is done, and still think that the Bogsch theory is wrong, but you can see the problems taht arise shold someone authorise, abroad, the doing of a direct infringment in the UK (for example by granting a licence rooted in water).

The US is I think the greatest promulgator of "long arm" statutes in the world and I find that that indicates an unpleasant arrogance.

Subject to those qualifications I agree with Don.