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How much of any of this is our individual IP?
Ond:
--- Quote from: horizon on February 17, 2015, 04:34:44 pm --- Imagine the butt puckers if OND retroactively trademarked his designs and charged people 600 dollars each. Whoops.
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Ahem.. downloads of Metropolis plans approx ~2400 x $600 = $1,440,000. You bitches owe me nearly $1.5 Mil! ;D. No. Not really. Whilst I can appreciate the ins and outs of the hypothetical discussion going on here about what is and isn't 'IP' my view is, most of us are here to freely exchange ideas and knowledge, i.e. we all own it - well more or less. IMO the success of the forum depends on some basic courtesy really, whilst the reuse of ideas is implied here, if people want to use an original design or idea for their own ends as a hobbyist, just ask the contributor for their OK. Acknowledge them when you have used the idea and we are all good. If we are talking commercial competition issues that's a whole different thing altogether, you either have protected IP or you don't.
This all stemmed from some recent mass post deletions yeah? If that so called 'removal of IP' was deemed necessary by a member for a significant health reason, isn't that persons well being more important than some arcade machine build info?
Generic Eric:
You can draw that conclusion. But that was addressed. I think we can still have an abstract discussion. In fact the recent mention IP was in another thread. I started a separate thread, because there are limited examples of IP held by members. People have been riffing off of each other here for a long time.
I don't think a person can lay claim to a shape.
Also anyone that has made $ from bartops owes, at least recogniton to http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/stepweecade.htm
*shrug*
Ond:
Sure, and once you have some consensus on what is IP here, what then?
Generic Eric:
--- Quote from: Ond on February 17, 2015, 09:12:50 pm ---Sure, and once you have some consensus on what is IP here, what then?
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IP gets thrown around like love on Valentine's day. Also, there was a gross error that "Anything posted here was property of Saint."
Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: Ond on February 17, 2015, 08:08:47 pm ---isn't that persons well being more important than some arcade machine build info?
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QFMFT!
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