Re: More Hatto thievery from BIS

In article <310720071509518946%owenx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, O says...

In article <f8o0rv0sfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul Goldstein
<pgoldste@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Mr. von Bahr: If you were to pursue B-C in the USA, you would have a chance,
as
a likely prevailing party, to obtain an award of attorney's fees in addition
to
whatever damages you could prove. Accordingly, an American lawyer might take
your case on a contingent fee basis - i.e. the attorney would look to a fee
award for payment. Since B-C sold infringing CDs to US customers, it should
be
possible to obtain jurisdiction over him and/or his company in an American
court. Whether any of this is worth doing, I don't know enough of the facts to
say.

Even in the US, and even if he obtains a judgement against B-C, he
would still have to collect that judgement, whatever it might be. If
B-C doesn't have the money, then there's nothing to collect. You can
get awarded all the fees in the world, but if there's no money to pay
that judgement, than it's all moot.

Hence my caveat.

.

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