Klarinet Archive - Posting 000024.txt from 1998/04

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: urgent plea
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:55:23 -0500

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Neil Leupold wrote:
> ...which just goes to prove that you pretty much have an opinion
> about everything. I make no "assertions" in my initial statement.
> Your comment is broad-based, whereas I qualify mine via a delimiter
> which indicates that I'm referring to the "right to use". In U.S.
> patent law, the use of somebody else's technology requires the purchase
> of a license, typically for the life of the patent (20 years from filing
> date, or 17 years from issue -- whichever is longer). Rental of music
> can be viewed as a limited license between the publisher and the cust-
> omer, the terms being established externally via copyright law in
> essentially the same fashion that U.S. patent law dictates the
> terms of a technological patent licensing agreement.

I sent your emails and copies of the original to my brother, who is an
attorney for Copyright Infringement in the state of Oregon and
Washington....for which he passed the bar in both states. I have an
opinion when I believe the incorrect information is presented - or
presented in a way that is irresponsible. It would be awful if a person
read your post and thought that Patent vs. Copyright were the same thing
and made a legal error as a result of that understanding.

I hope this clears up any misunderstanding you might hold about what my
post did or did not say, and what your intial post did say?

Roger Garrett
IWU

   
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