Digital BW, The Print

The way I read their agreement is that "generic profiles" are the ones restricted
unless you've paid for a special more expensive license.

Custom profiles by a custom profile service are perfectly fine -- this gives
people an incentive to buy the software and sell a profiling service. 

The other detail is that it's the profile made with their software that is copyrighted.
The measurements are not copyrighted -- they can't copyright the density value
on your paper!  So there's no issue with buying their hardware and feeding the
data into a different software package.   So making icc profiles some other way
is just fine.

I'm no legal expert but that's the way I interpret it.

Roy


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
>
> Exactly Greg,
> 
> Atkinson isn't nieve, he's been around the block. I don't know what
> the big deal is though, a generic profile isn't a cusom profile and
> never will be.
> 
> Which begs the question.... I assume anyone making profiles for a
> living like Profile City, has a licensing agreement worked out with
> McBeth or whoever patented their system. 
> 
> Now you got me thinking... Roy Harrington or some software guru needs
> to market his own photospectrometer and open the world up to true
> democracy! It's only a matter of time before someone does that. (
> don't tell Epson, they'll do it).
> 
> John
> 
> 
>  Since they are up 
> > on a private web space, I can only assume that a private agreement 
> > has been reached.
> >
>