>>97390175>That violates standing if the rights holder doesn't know.It should, but doesn't. Germany started the trend and now most countries follow suit.
>And thst violates other shit if the rights holder says they don't carePrecedent is that if you explicitly state you won't litigate to protect your intellectual property that property effectively passes to public domain immediately, or you forfeit your share of the rights if it's shared among multiple parties. Basically, you cannot legally act with favouritism towards your intellectual property, if it's for sale to one it's for sale to all, if it's free for one it's free for all. People can and have done that of course but it's generally not the norm--usually when someone realizes they have ownership of something they didn't realize they owned, they try to extract value out of it and often there is a financial incentive to maintain control over some intellectual property because you're still getting residuals from it.
This is, by the way, why authors wring hands over things like fanfiction. On principle they usually don't care but in practice they can't say that they don't care or else they're also telling their publisher they no longer need to pay them. Yes, it's stupid that the laws work that way but that's precedent.
