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: CS05 <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:56:02 -0400
The fact still remains that since software products are licensed,
the license can attempt to impose any condition it likes, including
a royalty on things produced using that product.
Thankfully this isn't attempted very often for products like paint
programs, document editors etc., but sometimes even in manufacturing,
someone will make something that they think is so special that they
can demand royalties on the product produced.
You have a choice, no one's twisting your arm to license products with
such conditions.
Graeme Gill
Of course, a software company could demand in the license agreement
that you only use their software while standing on one foot, and you
would have to abide by it to legally use their software, but
overreaching conditions can (and have in the past) been challenged
and forced to be changed in courts. Anyway, my criticism was
someone's claim that the user's profiles are the COPYRIGHT of the
software company. My understanding is that this would be a false
assumption, and any EULA that contained language contrary to
copyright law could be easily challenged in court on that basis. So
it's not correct to say that "any condition" can be imposed in a
license agreement. Copyrights belong to the user-creators, not the
tool-creators.
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