Re: TI-H: Plastic cases, EII, & MMODs: READ

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: Plastic cases, EII, & MMODs: READ
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:31:49 -0700
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


he copyrighted the name and exactly "art" (which means how it looks on the
inside).  You can't make anything that looks like his.  When you do
something like that, you get someone to write on paper in words what the
device does, and then you reproduce it without looking at the orrigional.
There is no need to make 20+ different "mods" so just find one good style
and stick with it.  All of the "mods" will be outdated for the EIII
anyway...

For more copyright look in the cashe at www.ticalc.org...  we already had
this discussion...  ;)

>> I'm assuming that they assumed that they could copy it,
>> since grant was doing the EII, but my MMOD port is copyrighted by me,
>> and I'm not happy about it!!!
>
>Aren't copyrights for the protection of plagerism of written/creative art
>and stuff? (you know what I mean, things like tradenames, books, movies,
>etc)    If one wishes to protect the design of a device, doesn't it have to
>be patented, so that the inventor has exclusive rights of production for the
>life of the patent (20 years?).  Just a question, I'm unsure.
>
>>