22 Dec
1998
22 Dec
'98
10:43 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 23 December 1998 4:34
Subject: Re: OT: Online auctins an institution?
Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
Just tell me you are joking - next time someone copyrights the
number 5 and you have to pay to use it ? C'mon, they CAN'T
copyright data - only representations ... It can't go that
way.
I seem to recall that this is the reason the Pentium(c) is called that and
not
a 586. Intel tried to copyright it, (to stop clone chip makers calling
their cpu's
"586's", and were told by the courts (?) that a numerical sequence
couldn't
be
copyrighted.
> There most certainly are companies that claim
ownership of raw data, and
there
> in not yet enough established case law in this
area. Some of the courts
have
> ruled in favor of plaintifs in these cases.
Shakespeare had the right idea. "First, lets kill all the lawyers"
The USA is not the entire world either. A company established in
say, Latvia or Kazahkstan selling such information might as well
be on the dark side of the moon as far as US courts/laws are concerned.
Hmm, you sound realy serious. It's ridicoulus ...
next time
time some University claims the fact that the earth is measured
25.000 Miles around and wants royalities from everyone using this
fact ? Maybe thats a way to convert the US to the metric system ...
just copyright all mesurements in Miles and Inches ad so on ...
Now there's a thought......:^)
Cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Room Internet Cafe
Port Pirie
South Australia.
netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au
22 Dec
22 Dec
11:15 a.m.
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Computer Room Internet Cafe wrote:
I seem to recall that this is the reason the
Pentium(c) is called that
and not a 586. Intel tried to copyright it, (to stop clone chip makers
calling their cpu's "586's", and were told by the courts (?) that a
numerical sequence couldn't be copyrighted.
You're thinking of trade marks, which protect brand names from dilution.
That's much more on the minds of ebay's lawyers these days as little
third-party ebay services and internet domains start popping up.
My favorite kind of bottom dweller will register misspellings of popular
domains. Try www.ebya.com, for example. Often, you'll end up at an adult
site like www.amazn.com....
-- Doug
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