On Friday 11 April 2008 13:36, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > LeeE wrote: > > On Friday 11 April 2008 12:17, Ove Kaaven wrote: > >> LeeE skrev: > >>> I was thinking more along the lines of publicly displaying > >>> the photo in an exhibition, which I don't think could be > >>> regarded as distribution, > >> > >> I suspect the RIAA and MPAA would disagree... > > Why are we discussing the term "exhibition" here? I would say > that by any reasonable interpretation the term does not apply to > what the FlightGear project is doing with its models. > > Cheers, > Ralf
I was using it as an example of the sorts of things I believe you can and cannot do under copyright laws (I'm not an expert but I do try to keep track of the state of play and what's going on). 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:) IIRC, Microsoft has officially licensed several aircraft designs for MSFS, which leaves open the possibility of preventing other people or groups, such as FG, from including, or producing, those designs in, or for, other simulators. We can only hope that this is not pursued because it's very unlikely that we'd be able to successfully contest it. In fact, it's probably only because MS doesn't need the bad press it would undoubtedly receive, should it pursue this, that prevents it from doing so. However, should FG ever become a serious challenger to MS's turf in the FlightSim world I don't think it would hesitate for too long. _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:) 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
