On 8/3/10, Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Constable said on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 01:09:32AM +0000,: > > > > > a claim of IPR of any kind, and unhindered use are incompatible. > > > > Are you saying that in your capacity as an IPR lawyer? ;-) > > No. I am no longer a laweyr for past 5 years, I am in employment. > > > If the owner of IP grants unhindered use, they are not incompatible. > > Definitely, you are correct. > > Question is, is such an explicit permission necessary? > > If I call myself "Mahesh", do I need to grant an explicit license to > enable you to address me as "Mahesh" in a public forum? > > If "Mahesh" was substituted with a symbol, would it make any > differentce? There is no need, IMHO. > > Philippe was suggesting otherwise, in spite of Govt. of India's > proposal. > > > Of course, the statement also implicitly assumes that unhindered > > use is what is desirable. It may be in some situations, but not in > > others.
Thank you Mahesh! For explaining this complex thing. Can you help understand following as well. Suppose you design something using Hindi-alphabet "Ra" as the basis. Then someone else calls your design basis is Latin-letter "R" and re-designs what you designed and then publishes accordingly. Where does this fall exactly? (meaning plagiarism Copyright abuse, etc) Thanks again, Tulasi
