I agree that a "Currency Product Type" shoud (also) be a subclass of E72
Legal Object. Not necessary for IPR reasons: I'm sure there are specific
laws concerning currency :-)

Dan

On 23 November 2014 at 18:45, martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Christian-Emil
>
> Please indicate a scope note for what you mean by "design". My first
> interpretation
> would be something like a "series product type" or "mass product type" or
> so.
>
> Best,
>
> Martin
>
>
> On 23/11/2014 4:58 μμ, Christian-Emil Smith Ore wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> Discussions can be clearifying. With respect to coins and other
>> symbols/representations  of value. In the Middle Ages, the value of farms
>> in Norway was listed as volume units of butter and so as estimated taxation
>> of farms, the Great Plague (mid-14th century) changed this system, . In
>> early modern time the  value was expressed in cow skins. The naturalia were
>> not used as currency but as abstract indicators of value. Thus coins,
>> banknotes, shells, cacao beans and whatnot can be used as money. This is
>> not the concern of the discussion.
>>
>> We apparently agree that coins and banknotes are mass produced objects
>> and especially medals and banknotes can carry images that are pieces of art
>> or at least artistic expressions that are subject to IPR legislation. These
>> rights have of course to be sorted out and bought before bank notes are
>> produced and put in circulation (Hitler by the way got quite a lot of his
>> income form the use of his portrait on German stamps).  See also
>> http://snohetta.com/project/200-norways-new-banknotes .
>>
>> The scope note I referred to was the scope note of E3 Expression
>> mentioning that an image can be an expression. The main point of
>> disagreement seems to be whether F3 Manifestation Product Type can be used
>> in connection with the production of coins (and other mass produced
>> objects). The scope note of F3 Manifestation Product Type( see below). The
>> very first sentence limit the scope " This class comprises the definitions
>> of publication products." I have no problem to accept that a bicycle, a
>> car, a backpack and a coin are not "publication products". There are of
>> course borderline cases like a milk carton with a printed text (e.g. a
>> cartoon) on it.  I also accept that stamps and bank notes are in best
>> (worst) cases such a borderline case.
>>
>> The F3 Manifestation Product Type is a sub type of E55 Type.  The rights
>> to  " definitions of publication product"   are regulated by IPR
>> legislations etc. Thus F3 Manifestation Product Type  is a sub type of E72
>> Legal Object.
>>
>> CIDOC CRM does not have a class for the design of things. E29 Design or
>> Procedure is an  (sub class of ) information object " This class comprises
>> documented plans for the execution of actions in order to achieve a result
>> of a specific quality, form or contents. In particular it comprises plans
>> for deliberate human activities that may result in the modification or
>> production of instances of E24 Physical Thing".  There is a gap here. Maybe
>> CIDOC CRM should be extended with a class called Design which is a sub
>> class of E55 Type and a subclass og E72 Legal Object. In addition one will
>> need some new properties . F3 Manifestation Product Type could then be a
>> sub class of  this new class.
>>
>> C-E
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> F3 Manifestation Product Type:
>> This class comprises the definitions of publication products.
>> An instance of F3 Manifestation Product Type is the "species", and all
>> copies of a given object are "specimens" of it. An instance of F3
>> Manifestation Product Type defines all of the features or traits that
>> instances of F5 Item normally display in order that they may be recognised
>> as copies of a particular publication. However, due to production problems
>> or subsequent events, one or more instances of F5 Item may not exhibit all
>> these features or traits; yet such instances still retain their
>> relationship to the same instance of F3 Manifestation Product Type.
>>
>> The features that characterise a given instance of F3 Manifestation
>> Product Type include: one instance of F24 Publication Expression,
>> containing one or more than one instance of F2 Expression, reflecting the
>> authors' content of the manifestation and all additional input by the
>> publisher; and the appropriate types of physical features for that form of
>> the object. For example, hardcover and paperback are two distinct
>> publications (i.e. two distinct instances of F3 Manifestation Product Type)
>> even though authorial and editorial content are otherwise identical in both
>> publications. The activity of cataloguing aims at the most accurate listing
>> of features or traits of an instance of F3 Manifestation Product Type that
>> are sufficient to distinguish it from another instance of F3 Manifestation
>> Product Type.
>>
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