Copyright is largely ignored in China and other places so can people in those places copy your images or repackage Hugin?
Bruno: Where is the other place to discuss Hugin where I can find answers? On Dec 17, 7:31 am, "tennevin.yves" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
