Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:57:47 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mail25@bzerk.org Subject: Re: our little daemon abused as symbol of the evil Message-ID: <201002091957.o19JvlcV028882@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:27:16 %2B0100." <86eikuk317.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Hi,
Reference:
> From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:27:16 +0100
> Message-id: <86eikuk317.fsf@ds4.des.no>
=?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote:
> "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> writes:
> > I asked someone who registers trademarks as part of her job:
> > One can apply to register a trademark in {(my (Julian) brackets) at
> > least all of} Germany Britain America {etc}. She spoke of
> > an international form where one ticks the countries one
> > wants {to apply to}.
> >
> > I recall there's initial & recuring fees (& admin) on getting &
> > renewing trademarks. So questions could be:
> > Has Kirk (or A.N.Other) registered it [which, what] as a
> > trademark ? In which countries ? When ? URLs please.
> > Have they already/ when will they expire
> > Whose crontab file reminder who Kirk ? to pay renewal
> > fees [to which countries] ?
>
> There is no need to register a trademark. Kirk owns the *copyright* to
> the image, which is valid world-wide at no cost. As the copyright
> holder, Kirk gets to decide who is and isn't allowed to use the image
> and for what purpose.
>
> I'm tempted to say that those researchers' use of the daemon is a
> shocking display of lack of respect for intellectual property, if I
> didn't already know far too well that most scientists are not only
> completely clueless about IP but do not even understand it when you
> explain it to them.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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Cheers,
Julian
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