Archive for category Intellectual Property

Copyright – Who owns what messages on discussion lists?

Posted by Robert Bacal in Intellectual Property on August 25, 2009

This is an excerpt from a discussion regarding how owns what copyrights on discussion lists, and how to be protected if one writes online.
> From: “Douglas M. Max” <dmax@…>
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> As an aside, just to protect each of our subscribers on trdev, you’ll
> notice that there’s a “copyright trdev” notice at the bottom of each post.
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Training, Trainers and Copyright

Posted by Robert Bacal in Intellectual Property, Uncategorized on August 25, 2009

Periodically there have been conversations about the copyright of training and coaching materials. Occasionally the conversations have gotten heated, particularly when someone professes an extreme view of the value of copyrights in principle. Here’s a post where I respond to a particular person (who seems to have failed badly in training and business).
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Response to some false ideas on copyright for trainers

Posted by Robert Bacal in Intellectual Property on August 25, 2009

This is a response I made to an individual trying to educate us on copyright issues. Clearly, it’s an area where there is tons of misunderstanding. When in doubt, get a lawyer.
I think there are some errors here, but heck none of us are lawyers.

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Some final thoughts on TRDEV and the outcomes of arrogance.

Posted by Robert Bacal in Intellectual Property, trdev Underground, trdev discussion list update on January 25, 2009

I was going to let this thread go without additional comment, since, after all, the people who destroyed the yahoo version of trdev through their arrogance, and then, in a pique, destroyed the knowledge and potential learning for those that come later, by sending to oblivion 13,000 messages accumulated over nine years, are gone, out [...]

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