Infringement is a lot easier to disprove.

The offense is called assisting copyright infringement .

All they needed was a single claim of copyright infringement.

First of all, if you can, don't fight the patent, fight the infringement.

Behold, patent infringement via mobile device defined as a computer which is not stationary.

It's optional but is required to sue for infringement, and sometimes you see copyright

And in discovery phase, we asked the patent troll to please provide screenshots of Fark where the infringement of their patent was actually occurring.

Now, one day a young John Carmack made a demo called Dangerous Dave in copyright infringement, which actually showed off a Super Mario Brothers 3

A patent is a government is giving you a monopoly by preventing others from making, using, or selling your invention, even if the other's infringement was innocent or accidental.

We've got laws that fundamentally treat creative works as property, plus massive rewards or settlements in infringement cases, plus huge legal fees to protect yourself in court, plus cognitive biases against perceived loss.

And the people who provide those capabilities to us the YouTubes, the Facebooks, the Twitters and TEDs are in the business of having to police us, or being on the hook for contributory infringement.