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Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
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Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law

by Lawrence Rosen
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 12m
English
Pearson
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Injunctions

Usually an injunction is of far greater concern to a defendant than monetary damages. An injunction is:

A court order prohibiting someone from doing some specified act or commanding someone to undo some wrong or injury. (Black's Law Dictionary, 6th edition.)

Injunctions will be ordered by a court when economic damages are not adequate to compensate for the wrong. On the other hand, courts are reluctant to issue injunctions when monetary damages would be sufficient to redress the wrong.

Consider the financial repercussions to a company of being ordered by a court to stop using software that has become an essential component of that company's processes or products. Risks like these often make injunctions far more frightening than monetary ...

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