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Subject: Re: [Leica] Erwin Put's Essay on the MP
From: Patrick Jelliffe <pbjbike@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:22:32 -0800 (PST)

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
> 
> 
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