From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 09/26/03-06:41:53 AM Z
Kent,
Knowledge can't be copyrighted at all, that's not the issue. But expression
of that knowledge can, and is when published. If someone here does a
particularly good job of explaining some aspect of a process, the knowledge
is being shared freely but the expression is protected. Fine for someone to
read the instructions and go try them. Not ok for someone to make a copy of
the instructions and publish it under their own name: that's
infrinement.---Carl
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and workshop information
http://www.carlweese.com
> From: Kent Gibbs <kent_gibbs@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:09:02 -0700 (PDT)
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Copyright
>
> I'm sorry but I have to wade in here. Is this list a closed list? Do
> we have secret knowledge that no one else is privileged too? Did we
> all develop and/or create the processes we use? No?
>
> Maybe I'm wrong but I suspect that we all have learned and are
> learning (and using) techniques that we did not discover ourselves. So
> what makes anybody on this list think that the knowledge of these
> historic processes are propriety? The very fact that we discuss these
> processes would be a violation of intellectual property, if this were
> to be taken to it's illogical conclusion.
>
> Now don't get me wrong. I hate piracy and pirates. But if or until
> each of us develops our own unique and original technique for affixing
> an image permanently onto a supporting medium, we are plagiarizing
> knowledge that we learned from another source. And we ought to be
> drawn and quartered if we make any money at it.
>
> I applaud anything that will create interest in these processes so
> that hopefully, my grandchildren and great grandchildren will
> appreciate what went into creating the first photographic images.
>
> My .02
>
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