violation of GPLv2 - remedies?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, May 08, 2002, Mahesh T Pai (paivakil at yahoo.co.in) wrote:
> Abraham Ingersoll wrote:
> 
> >Once a company has violated the GPL (v2), what remedies does the 
> >copyright holder have? What must a copyright holder do to protect these 
> >possible remedies, and what can/should a copyright holder do with regard 
> >to the original violator? 
> >
> This is simple - meet a lawyer.
> 
> >How drastically does the situation change if the publisher never bothered 
> >to officially register the copyright with the library of congress?
> >
> Registration does not make any difference

This statement is patently false under US law:

    http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/411.html

Peace.

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