[OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

[Richard Fairhurst]

John Smith wrote:
> I was under the impression that only the US had personal copyright
> infringement as a criminal offence...

It's an offence in E&W whether personal or commercial. For a business, it's
an offence to distribute copyrighted material without licence; for an
individual, it's an offence to distribute it (as I quoted) "to such an
extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright".

> Would that penalty be for personal or commercial infringement?

Either.

cheers
Richard

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