Photo Ownership

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:

> Dave has already given me permission to use anything on his site but I
> realize he doesn't always obtain proper permission.  So what should I do?

There's a difference between what may be the "legal thing" (as contrary to
threats which have been made by company lawyers when they didn't like the
way something had been linked to, there's no case law on this yet that I
can find or that's been cited) and what may be the "right thing", which
you'll have to decide. Intellectual property battles can get nasty so I
try to stay away from the whole deal altogether, generally making
available stuff which is directly mine, but also now old documents from
expired companies. I suppose it's possible someone owns rights to PRCo and
PRR documents, but I'm not going to worry about it for now.

As far as other intellectual property, well, the only I really have is
computer "code", and I give that away: "This will not be where I make my
million"

-D