Re: Selling ICC profile...is it legal or not?
Re: Selling ICC profile...is it legal or not?
- Subject: Re: Selling ICC profile...is it legal or not?
- From: Terry Wyse <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:06:40 -0400
Tell you what, if a profile I create is effectively "owned" by the
software company, then I expect them to take full responsibility for
it's accuracy and reliability. Better yet, if a profile created by a
given piece of software "breaks" a workflow or in any way causes
downtime or remakes, then maybe they can be held liable for that.
What's next? If I create a consulting proposal in Word that generates
income for me, should Microsoft get a piece of that income because
they "own" the Word document?
It's crazy I tell ya!
:-)
Regards,
Terry Wyse
On Jun 24, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Marco Ugolini wrote:
In a message dated 6/24/07 12:47 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Lathes are not copyrighted (patented perhaps, but not copyrighted),
So, if only they had thought of copyrighting those lathes, then...
Anyway, don't take my example to the letter. It was meant to make a
larger
point.
and their productions are not derivative products of copyrighted
software.
There is little legal question that derivatives of copyrighted
software can be
protected by copyright. This could lead to some absurd situations,
carried to
the extreme, but it does exist, and is the basis for restriction
of ICC
profile distribution.
"There is little question"? In an age like ours where practically
everything
is done via computers, then, we are all working for the software
manufacturers? All we do belongs to them? The images I work on in
Photoshop?
The emails I send? The brochures I lay out in InDesign? Is that the
essence
of your remark?
That sounds more like an Orwellian nightmare than what we as free
citizens
of western-style democracies should agree to live in.
Marco Ugolini
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