RE: [dvd-discuss] A wonderful bit of a satire in the Register

["Richard Hartman" <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

He had given implicit permission for the _city_ to make
use of his ip.  Not for a private party.


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu]On Behalf Of 
> Will Bickford
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:19 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] A wonderful bit of a satire in the Register
> 
> 
> Wow.  That's awesome.
> 
> Although in this case I think that the defendant doesn't have 
> much of a 
> case.  He was sending his "IP" straight to the sewer - having 
> never signed 
> a contract with the city's sewer system.  So you could argue 
> that he had 
> given implicit permission for the use of his "IP".
> 
> Very nice article nonetheless.
> --Will
> 
> At 12:45 PM 3/9/2004, you wrote:
> >Can anyone say SCO (or MPAA or RIAA)?  Sort of puts it in 
> perspective, 
> >doesn't it?
> >BOFH: Protecting bodily waste in the public domain
> >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/36116.html
> 
> 
>