Patents hold no ground in Europe. The Berne convention can still be applied, what ever the licence you choose for your image. And to DaveN comment, I ain't infringing any patent while located in Europe, so the moralistic opinion is bogus, but copyright laws can still be applied in Europe.
-- Yves Tennevin / esby <dot> free.fr http://esby.free.fr/contact.html DaveN wrote: > Sure the IP rights are separate but that was not the question. If you > create an image infringing on a patent, can you in all honesty be > outraged if someone infringes on your rights to your image? > > On Dec 17, 12:39 am, ArAgost <[email protected]> wrote: > >> IANAL and I'm no expert on patents, but note that whatever are the >> issues with the software, the intellectual property of the image is >> completely separate. >> >> On 17 Dic, 06:30, DaveN <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> The best control point generators out there are SIFT based (or the >>> software company doesn't tell you what the function is but it sure >>> seems to operate like SIFT). SIFT is patented however that patent is >>> largely ignored on the grounds that such patents don't apply in all >>> parts of the world. The current downloads for Hugin barely mention >>> the patent issue. >>> >>> Copyrights are also largely ignored in some parts of the world. Using >>> the same logic as above, is it ok for someone in one of the parts of >>> the world that largely ignore copyrights to repackage a version of >>> Hugin and sell it as their own worldwide? Would it be ok if they did >>> so and only casually mentioned to the buyer to check their local laws >>> for any issues that may concern them locally? >>> >>> If someone makes a commercial image from Hugin using a SIFT control >>> point generator and then posts the stitched image on the Internet and >>> someone copies it, is that ok? >>> >>> I'll duck now. >>> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
