Re: Demon license? (copyright myths)

From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC (chad_at_shire.net)
Date: 07/20/05

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To: Bob Johnson <bob89@eng.ufl.edu>

    On Jul 20, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Bob Johnson wrote:

    > IANAL either, but in general, a copyright holder has the right to
    > control
    > derivative works as well. You can't publish pictures of Mickey
    > Mouse without
    > permission of Disney, even if you drew the pictures yourself, and you
    > (probably) can't publish images of Beastie without Kirk McKusick's
    > permission. The fact that he is lenient in enforcing his rights
    > does not
    > mean that he doesn't have them.
    >
    > If someone manages to come up with a daemon image that is obviously
    > NOT
    > Beastie, then they won't have to worry about McKusick's copyright,
    > but since
    > he is so lenient in granting usage, why bother?
    >
    > http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
    >
    > - Bob

    This would be true if he had invented or come up with Beastie first.
    Is that how it happened? I was under the impression that he just
    came up with the most loved form but that previously somewhat similar
    images had been used for unix/bsd etc. He still has the right to
    derivatives of his beastie but I would suspect that not-so-similar
    versions would be OK. But again, IANAL and am not familiar with whole
    history 

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