PLEASE REMOVE THIS IMMEDIATELY: was Re: VS .NET review

[Eray Ozkural (exa)]

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On Wednesday 14 November 2001 20:58, Roland Krause wrote:
> Aehem,...
> this was a bad idea in fact it was a very bad idea.
>
> This can get us in a lot of trouble, please remove the screenshots
> immediately. I know a little bit about copyright law from my wife who
> is a lawyer and that's what this comes down to. Posting screenshots of
> a competitors application to a public site == not a good idea.
>
> This can give Microsoft a reason to shut down our entire project,
> believe me, I know what I am talking about.
>

Did you really take legal advice about this particular matter?

It depends, as far as I know, how much they have tried to abuse private law 
in their license for that specific product. What does the license say, and is 
that license binding all of the globe? I'd think that if they have a clause 
about screenshots, much like what Adobe has in their licenses, and in my 
opinion unrightfully so, you would not be permitted to use the screenshots in 
a publication under certain cases; in certain countries. It should not give 
anybody the right to shut down any project on the Internet though. And fair 
use rights should apply. Writing a review of a software product is a very 
common exercise, and since we aren't a competing business why should that 
matter at all?

IANAL, but I don't think that copyright law gives companies such endless 
powers.

In addition, why should a public mailing list differ from a public website in 
that respect?

If this is truly scary, I suggest you post it somewhere else. Like a personal 
homepage not associated with this project.

Regards,

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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo at cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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