David Guest wrote: > Tim Churches wrote: >> Kuangie, >> >> That's very nifty but it says at the top of the page: >> >> "Docle Browser - (c) all rights reserved docle systems 1986-2006" >> >> All reasonable interpretations would take that assertion of all >> available rights under the Copyright Act to extend to the Docle codes >> displayed in the Docle Browser. >> >> My understanding of the Australian Copyright act, having read it several >> times over the last few years, is that anyone else is thus permitted to >> view your Docle codes in the browser but not to copy them or reproduce >> them in any way, not even by cut-and-paste into in-house reporting >> systems as David and Tony are setting up for themselves. >> > I am not sure if this is entirely true in this case, Tim. I've got the > codes in my database already. HCN no doubt have a Docle license. I just > want to know I've got everything I want.
No David, it's not your database. I suspect (but Kuangie as teh owner of Docle could confirm) that Docle has licensed its codes to HCN for distribution in HCN products, but that doesn't mean that Docle has licensed its codes to David Guest for use in a stand-aone OpenOffice Base reporting system. Now, Kuangie is rather unlikely to bring a law suit against you for such use, but it is the principle I am concerned about here: if the creator of a coding system designed to represent medical or other knowledge wants it to be widely used, then s/he really does have to provide a proper license to allow that to happen under copyright law - otherwise people who do use it are in a legal limbo. And not all creators of medical coding systems are as nice as Kuangie. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
