Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:26:55 -0400 From: Josh Ockert <torstenvl@gmail.com> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: Bob Johnson <bob89@eng.ufl.edu>, freebsd-questions Question <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Demon license? (copyright myths) Message-ID: <126eac48050720102610336c2f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BE2E0257-A5A4-46B4-9CA9-D9E844B4D1B7@shire.net> References: <200507201111.42450.bob89@eng.ufl.edu> <BE2E0257-A5A4-46B4-9CA9-D9E844B4D1B7@shire.net>
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On 7/20/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> wrote: >=20 > On Jul 20, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Bob Johnson wrote: >=20 > > IANAL either, but in general, a copyright holder has the right to > > control > > derivative works as well. You can't publish pictures of Mickey > > Mouse without > > permission of Disney, even if you drew the pictures yourself, and you > > (probably) can't publish images of Beastie without Kirk McKusick's > > permission. The fact that he is lenient in enforcing his rights > > does not > > mean that he doesn't have them. > > > > If someone manages to come up with a daemon image that is obviously > > NOT > > Beastie, then they won't have to worry about McKusick's copyright, > > but since > > he is so lenient in granting usage, why bother? > > > > http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html > > > > - Bob >=20 >=20 > This would be true if he had invented or come up with Beastie first. > Is that how it happened? I was under the impression that he just > came up with the most loved form but that previously somewhat similar > images had been used for unix/bsd etc. He still has the right to > derivatives of his beastie but I would suspect that not-so-similar > versions would be OK. But again, IANAL and am not familiar with whole > history >=20 > --- > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC > Your Web App and Email hosting provider > chad@shire.net >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 No I disagree. I'm fairly certain that an independently drawn personified mouse would not be copyright infringement. Calling it "Mickey Mouse" may very well be trademark infringement, however. --=20 Josh Ockert WMU Student: French Linguistics, Computer Science --=20 The irony in biblical creationists' rhetoric of implicitly claiming that God's universe is so inconsistent that carbon decays at erratic rates is too delicious to ignore.
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