Re: Terms of use Mathworks file exchange

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 6 May 2012 13:16, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
>> A term so restrictive as 3.b in the terms of use in MatLab exachange
>> (according to my favorite IP lawyer to whom I ask and had a long
>> discussion due to these e-mails)
>
> What's an IP lawyer? One that specialises in copyright and patents and
> trademarks and industrial designs and moral rights and droit d'auteur
> and regional designations and trade secrets? Does any lawyer actually
> do all of those?
>
> Or does your lawyer friend only do copyright or patents? In that case,
> wouldn't she or he only be a copyright lawery or a patent lawyer? The
> laws for each of those are generally vast, different, and complicated
> enough by themselves that it seems reasonable to me to specialise in
> only one of those.
>
Yes, you are right. She basically worked (now moving into penal law)
in "protection of content producers" or whatever you can translate
that into. IP, goes for Intellectual property and she worked mainly
with companies and other companies trying to sell the same product but
avoiding copyright clashes... all disgusting if you ask me, but a
reality of the business wolrd.

>> is quite "unusual" and the lawyer thinks that may be difficult to
>> enforce it generally (i.e. if they want to make valid they will have
>> to bring ti to court and convince the system they are right).
>
> The real problem here is not if the Mathworks can get away with this
> or not, but that they're trying at all. It's repugnant that they are
> sneakily trying to control what people can do with free code.
>

+1, Like, Digg it, or whatever.. Fully agree.

> - Jordi G. H.



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