Digital BW, The Print

Although I am not an attorney, I have been in enough legal scrapes to
understand  that a “license release” containing unspecified commitments with
no witness or notary seal is highly suspect and probably not enforceable in
any court. 

 

 

 

 

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From: Dennis W. Manasco [mailto:dmanasco@...] 
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 3:45 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Digital to Silver

 

This looks like a really interesting and useful book.

However:

Each order requires signing an "Agree To 
Licensing Agreement & Signature" line on the 
order form.

Does anyone know what this is about? If you 
select the "Licensing Information" link all you 
get is a page that says "Coming Soon!"

I'm more-than-somewhat loath to agree to a 
license sight unseen. If it is something about 
not giving away the process and curve-building 
files to people who didn't buy the book that's 
one thing (though a bit historically arrogant).

BUT:

If it says something in it about not using the 
method for financial gain without paying 
royalties and/or crediting the author of the 
process on your print, or something like that, 
then that is another proposition entirely.

(Imagine if Adam's Zone System books had required 
you to sign a license that said that you wouldn't 
teach his methods to anyone else, that you would 
pay Adams a royalty on every print you made using 
them and give him equal billing as 
co-producer...) (or if Nièepce had patented any 
process that reproduced images of 
three-dimensional scenes on a two-dimensional 
surface using lenses and chemical agents....)

Anyway, I'm a bit concerned about signing 
licenses on the internet (rather than on paper) 
where they can change at any time without 
providing any proof of their previous form. And I 
really can't see signing a license sight unseen: 
You could be signing away your rights to any sort 
of tangible or intangible asset; even an 
unenforceable contract can require significant 
court costs to defend against.

All of which kinda p's me off since, from the 
description of the book, I'd really like to send 
this guy 80 bucks and get a copy of the book/CD.

By the way, I was going to CC: this message to 
Mark, but the "email Mark Nelson" link on the 
page only gives the familiar "Coming Soon!" 
response.


-=-Dennis







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