Photo Ownership

[brathke at juno.com]

A good friend is an attorney who specializes in intellectual property
law.  She also teaches a class in Internet law at DePaul University Law
School.  I will forward this correspondence to her for an opinion.  I'm
sure she will not charge us a fee.

Bob 6/28

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On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:14:02 -0400 (EDT) Derrick J Brashear
<shadow at dementia.org> writes:
> 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
> 
> 

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