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Re: Donate to Cobra (pending court battle against Craig Wright)
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NotATether
on 25/04/2021, 06:47:19 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (4)
This is the law firm that's running CSW's case https://uk.ontier.net/ Looks like a generic law firm without an Australian branch so the only way these guys would actually serve a litigation like is if if he has friends in there.

Just like all the guys writing for his CoinGeek operation.

What I don't get about this particular lawsuit is how can someone even start a lawsuit concerning copyright claims for something that was clearly published under MIT license? (Bitcoin paper was released with bitcoin client both under MIT license)

It seems like his law firm bought the bait: https://www.ontier.net/ia/wright-v-cobra-ontier-press-release.pdf

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The bitcoin.org website, which promotes the digital asset referred to as ‘Bitcoin Core’, is hosting and publishing a copy of Dr Wright’s academic White Paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, without Dr Wright’s consent. Dr Wright owns the copyright to the White Paper, which he authored and first released in October 2008 under the now-famous moniker ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’.
ONTIER, on Dr Wright’s behalf, had previously written to ‘Cøbra’, informing them that they were infringing Dr Wright’s copyright and requesting that they remove the White Paper from the website. ‘Cøbra’, whose real name remains unknown, has refused to comply with this request.

Copyright means nothing for an asset that is legally licensed under the MIT license, so all Cobra's lawyers theoretically have to do to throw out the case is to point out that by placing the MIT license on it, he has forfeited "his" (blech!) rights to restrict the use of the whitepaper.