Submission + - Sun's Schwartz sued for copyright infringement (netbula.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Sun Micro sued the programmer for trademark infringement,
and the C++ hacker sued Jonathan Schwartz for vicarious and contributory copyright infringement.
http://netbula.com/lawsuit/
61. Without getting any response from DeCecco or anyone else from SUN, in August
and September 2006, Plaintiff twice emailed SUN's CEO and President, Jonathan Schwartz,
informing him about the infringement. No SUN employee responded to the two email messages.
62. On information and belief, Julie DeCecco and Jonathan Schwartz, instead of
stopping the infringement, employed delay tactics to continue the infringement. Schwartz and
DeCecco forwarded Plaintiff's email messages and related documents to other SUN employees
(including Melnick) and potentially SUN's outside counsel, preparing for lawsuit while permitting
the infringement to continue at SUN and its customers. One of SUN's planned strategies was to
sue Plaintiff personally by alleging trademark infringement on the JAVA and SUN marks.
63. On information and belief, Schwartz owned millions shares of SUN stocks and
derivative securities and was involved in the day-to-day management of SUN's operations,
including operating a blog and answering questions from customers or prospective customers.