From: Peter Cameron (pdwc_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 16:27:10 PDT
on 9/22/03 6:11 PM, Andrei Chichak at acpmiedm_at_telusplanet.net wrote:
> I'm not arguing, but I reiterate:
>> If you fail to
>> protect your copyrights, you give up your copyrights. This is not an
>> opinion, this is copyright law.
So, if you have deep pockets or feel your competition won't take you
court, you're saying it's fine to steal other people's ideas?
David spent a lot of time and effort to come up with the SER-001. He
sold it to the Newton community at a price that probably barely covered his
production costs and certainly didn't come close to compensating him for the
R&D time required.
Ferdi in his email to David said his was a 'home brew' of David's
design. Fine if you're making one for personal use I suppose. But I see
selling them to others as a violation of David's intellectual copyright,
unless he has a deal with David to pay a royalty for each copy sold.
Sure, David could get a lawyer, but it would probably cost him more for
the consultation than he could even hope to make from another couple of
production runs. The community (market) is small and innovators like David
should be supported.
Peter
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