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: Graeme Gill <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:32:39 +1000
Paul Sherfield wrote:
Saying a profile created by an user/owner of a profiling software is the
property of the software developer, is about as sane as saying a page
created in InDesign belongs to Adobe.
A lot of these file formats are quite complex, so there is scope within
a resulting file for it to be composed of creative elements both from
the document author, and pieces copied from the package used to
facilitate the files creation. If this is the case, then either
author has a veto over the use of the resulting document.
(This case is very common in software. A programs author
creates a lot of the resulting code, but a final executable
also contains library elements that have been linked into the
resulting binary. The authors of those libraries have
to license them to the programs author for the author
to be able to distribute the resulting program.)
Don't confuse this with the idea of the vendor claiming
ownership of your contribution to the document, rather it would
just be them exercising their rights to their part of the
(composite) document.
Thankfully vendors of packages that are primarily intended for
such creative works don't attempt to exercise such rights
(assuming there were such vendor elements within the resulting documents).
Graeme Gill.
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