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Re: Intellectual Property of ideas relating to possible TLG Marketing
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:42:43 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> [...]
> I'm not that much of a lawyer, but would the following scenario allow us to
> discuss ideas *for* TLG, whilst not stopping them from implementing them?
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> "A newsgroup (lugnet.ideas.tlg or something), whose charter plainly stated
> that when sending to that group the individual relinquished any intellectual
> copyright upon ideas expressed within it to the public domain or to TLG
> itself (if that is possible)."
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> Therefore, by cross-posting to that group TLG would be legally free to use
> those ideas. (Idealistically :)
Since TLG's stated policy is that they don't accept ideas from outside
sources, their IP attorneys would still require their designers to ignore
such a group (at least in official capacities), and they would still have
to maintain a paper trail on all the ideas they came up with in-house.
However, if they ever change their policy so that they do accept outside
ideas, then a group like that may certainly be helpful to TLG.
--Todd
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