[$] The rise of copyright trolls

At the 2017 FreeSoftware Legal and Licensing Workshop (LLW), which was held April 26-28in Barcelona, Spain, more information about the GPL enforcement efforts by Patrick McHardyemerged. The workshop is organized by the Free Software Foundation Europe(FSFE) and its legalnetwork.A panel discussion on the final day of the workshop discussedMcHardy's methodology and outlined why those efforts are actually far fromthe worst-case scenario of a copyright troll. While the Q&A portion of thediscussion was under Chatham HouseRule (which was the default for the workshop), the discussion betweenthe three participants was not-it provided much more detail about McHardy's efforts, andcopyright trolling in general, than has been previously available publicly.