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 > ...any chance you guys can drop this useless thread?? sl > > --- 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