Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Seth, IT WAS NOT PUBLISHED ON THE LUG. And the finer point here is that Puts distributed this article before he was supposed to do so. A third party could not have posted his ad early if Puts himself had not transgressed the official timetable of the March 2 release date. Patrick - --- Seth Rosner <sethrosner1@msn.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jerry Lehrer" <jerryleh@pacbell.net> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Erwin Put's Essay on the MP > > Austin > > I really don't give a damn if Putz made or lost > any money on his > > worshipful article, but the term "intellectual > property" has nothing to do > with money. Does it? > > > > Jerry > > Hello Jerry: > > In fact from a legal point of view, that's all it > has to do with. Property > is a legal concept and it imports some indication or > level of ownership. > Copyright law intends to protect exactly that, the > value of that ownership > interest. > > I won't get into the fine points of > copyright/intellectual property law - > that's not my field of practice - but it is exactly > why "fair use" for > non-commercial purposes is permitted without > royalty. > > None of this has anything to do with the breach of > trust in publishing on > the LUG something that presumably was supposed to be > for Erwin's group > alone. > > Seth LaK 9 > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html