Re: filmscanners: open and control

[Bob Armstrong]

Bob Coxford wrote:

> Daguerre was paid a pension by the French government to make his invention free to 
> everyone, (except the Brits).


I thought I read long ago that there was a patent taken out in England a short time 
before the French government bought the rights to the process and it was the patent 
that stopped the English using the process.  

Was it the French who took out the patent to stop the English using the process and 
did the patent apply in Scotland?

Bob Armstrong