Re: [Flightgear-devel] FYI: "EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims"

2008-04-12 Thread LeeE
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 the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FYI: "EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims"

2008-04-12 Thread Ralf Gerlich
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 > t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FYI: "EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims"

2008-04-11 Thread Ralf Gerlich
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 discus

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FYI: "EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims"

2008-04-11 Thread LeeE
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... > > > as opposed to selling copi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FYI: "EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims"

2008-04-11 Thread Ove Kaaven
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... > as opposed to selling copies of it, which would be > classed as distribution. -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FYI: "EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims"

2008-04-11 Thread LeeE
On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:46, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Hi! > > LeeE wrote: > > [...], there should be nothing to prevent a photographer from > > taking a photograph of the Eiffel Tower lights and exhibiting > > it to others, as long as they don't do so for profit, because > > it's their personal vi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FYI: "EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims"

2008-04-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi! LeeE wrote: > [...], there should be nothing to prevent a photographer from taking > a photograph of the Eiffel Tower lights and exhibiting it to > others, as long as they don't do so for profit, because it's their > personal view and artistic expression of something they've seen in > the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FYI: "EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims"

2008-04-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* LeeE -- Thursday 10 April 2008: > Thanks for posting that. BTW: the discussion about the first link is also interesting: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/21/wwii-bomber-trademar.html m. - This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FYI: "EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims"

2008-04-10 Thread LeeE
On Thursday 10 April 2008 11:33, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > http://www.johnmacneill.com/WWII_Bomber.html > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/liberate-b-24-liberator > > m. Thanks for posting that. I think the EFF article has the best take on it - it was not appropriate grant the term "B-24" as a

[Flightgear-devel] FYI: "EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims"

2008-04-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
http://www.johnmacneill.com/WWII_Bomber.html http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/liberate-b-24-liberator m. - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's