Matthew Hunt wrote: >OK, thanks, but was there any reason to believe that they crafted it >maliciously, instead of it being a CYA approach? You need to be able >to create derivative works to create thumbnails, etc. You may include >an "any medium" clause, because you're backing on magnetic, optical, >and stone-tablet media, and want to make sure you're covered when the >holographic storage arrays come out. > >I don't disagree that it was probably overreaching, relative to their >actual needs, but I tend to attribute that to lawyers' CYA tendencies, >rather than jump to the conclusion that they're moving into the stock >photo business and keeping all the money. Mark Roberts had a good >recent blog post on this very topic. > >In other words, it comes across to me as a misstep which they >subsequently remedied; I have trouble connecting it to the intensity >of reactions that some here have expressed.
It's entirely CYA. And there are very good reasons why no one has ever seen an example of them misusing these terms to their advantage. http://www.robertstech.com/blog/?p=327 -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
