[Foundation-l] Good example; The works of Charles Darwin freed :)
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Sat Oct 21 14:25:40 UTC 2006
geni wrote:
>On 10/20/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
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>>Links would be enough.
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>>Ec
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>collections.iwm.org.uk/upload/pdf/newlegal02a.pdf
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Thanks. I wonder how much of it is enforceable. Of course it only
relates to film and videos. It does not appear to cover text or still
photographs.
For specific observations: the Museum copyrights in 3.1 would not
operate to restore copyrights that had already expired. Section 3.6
assigning one's own copyrights to the IWM seems to be way over the top.
A common problem with a lot of these kinds of conditions is that they
are seldom enforced strictly, and contain more bark than bite. Any real
argument always needs to involve specific circumstances. To the extent
that it is a contract rather than a statute it cannot directly bind
third parties. The contract may require you to bind end-users to the
contract, but if you fail to do so they can only go after you. Any
actions that they may have against third parties will be limited to
those provided by the law alone, and not those allowed in the contract.
This then becomes a matter of how much risk the person signing an
agreement with them is willing to accept.
Ec
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