On Saturday 12 April 2008 18:29, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Hi! > > LeeE wrote: > > I would argue that we need to keep track of copyright issues > > because all of the FG aircraft and their colour schemes, > > perhaps with the exclusion of Oleg, are copyrighted and FG has > > no clear rights to use them (Oleg's 'components' i.e. the > > bricks are copyrighted but the design made out of them isn't). > > Actually, Oleg's design is copyrighted but the copyright holder > > is the person who submitted it to FG:) > > I agree. > > > _We_ are discussing it because _you_ posted a reply to it:) > > Otherwise it would have just been me, and I would have probably > > soon shut up about it:) So if you don't want to discuss it - > > don't post about it:) > > I asked why we are discussing about the "exhibition" issue > instead of the distribution issue. I originally did not reply > about "exhibition" stuff, but rather about the "for profit" vs. > "in a regular manner" distinction. > > In general, a discussion about the legal aspects is not very > satisfying, except if there would be two lawyers on this list > discussing it - which would not be very satisfying as well (two > lawyers, three opinions). > > If I unterstood the text linked by Melchior in his original post > correctly, the EFF mainly focuses on the trademark issues of the > designs, but not on the copyright issues. > > Trademark issues might - independently of the problems the EFF is > focusing on - be applicable to the liveries. Copyright issues > might be applicable to the designs. The best solution would be if > we had the written agreement of the respective rights owners. > That could clear us from legal issues, independent of whether > such issues would arise or not. However, one would have to > clarify, who "we" is or who needs the written agreement. > > To be reasonably sure of what we have to do and what we can do, > we'd need a copyright expert (read: an actual lawyer). I am no > such expert - although I'd say that I know a good part or two > about copyright - and I suspect those taking part in the > discussion so far aren't, either. Discussing this among legal > laymen is probably no good idea. > > Cheers, > Ralf
Ok - fine - we'll stop discussing it because we don't know what we're talking about. Problem? - what problem? LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
