Quote - *""The point is not to end up in court. Once you are in court, your house, sanity and well being is at stake even if you have a good case.  Prudent artists and business people work on avoiding that.""

seems alot more dangerous than:

*""and decides to be a stinker and say something, the most they can do is send them a note saying, hey, you can't do that.""

Yes it does sound more dangerous and it is in the case of the first statement which applies to someone deliberately violating copyrights and making a significant profit from them. It also applies to commercial artists and businesses. It doesn't apply to hobby-noobs hoping for a gift certificate or some other small change endeavor.

Second statement applies to a noob making a few learning mistakes.

You can't take those two statements out of the context they were written in and compare them in the manner you did, because they refer to a different segment of users.  Even courts are inclined to cut noobs a break, when they find themselves contesting something with a professional, because as a lay person or a noob, there's no expectation that you know the details. Professionals on the other hand, the way courts see it have an obligation to be up to speed with their knowledge.

Is it my turn now to nag you, for merely skimming through what I wrote not paying attention?

I know you don't want to hear from me any more, and would prefer to have an attorney explain things to you, however, I do have about 20 years of experience of dealing with copyrights and intellectual property rights in what I do for work. I'm one of those people that courts would see as obligated to be up to speed in knowing what they are and aren't supposed to do to protect their own rights and how not to violate someone elses' rights.

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