It's not a novel idea, it's prior art. Putting pieces together to create a compisition has been done for ages. One of the earliest examples is the string grid an artist created to paint with, all around a single nodule point.
One could even claim that Micheangelo's painting of the sistine chapel was a panoramic of heaven as he saw it, where he was the nodal point. Again, not a novel idea, but prior art. Anytime software is an extension of real world principles and does not introduce a new idea, it's not novel. Imagine if Galieo tried to patent gravity. We'd all be left hanging in the wind so to speak. Galieo didn't discover gravity, he recognized it. The same as any 3 year old child who stumble and falls on his face does. > Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:55:32 -0800 > Subject: [hugin-ptx] Re: Moral questions > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > <<For the materials producted by the those illegaly packaged software, > they are usually legit. >> > > Which brings me back to my original point. If you knowingly use > illegally package software to create a work, do you have a moral right > to be outraged if your work is stolen? > > On Dec 18, 3:01 am, "tennevin.yves" <[email protected]> wrote: > > This has nothing to do with hugin. > > > > Free / nonfree software can be pirated everywhere in the world, what > > ever the local laws allowing this or not. > > Using an illegal copy of a software, being photoshop, hugin, windows or > > God know what is usually the user's responsability. > > > > For the materials producted by the those illegaly packaged software, > > they are usually legit. > > That does not mean the one using them risk nothing. > > > > It just means the copyright status of such medias is unrelated to how > > they were created. > > > > -- > > Yves Tennevin / esby <dot> free.fr > > > > http://esby.free.fr/contact.html > > > > DaveN wrote: > > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. 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