Do you mean patent protection?
Speaking of "A" The following quote is from Maritime Reporter and Engineering News today: "With its unique bow design, which is hauntingly...
Caution, paraphrase follows! From the keyboards of babes ... Which brings us back to the carefully avoided question regarding "design" ... is...
Make sure the mayors and local chambers of commerce know you will not be bringing quite a few thousand dollars their fair cities, and exactly why.
Aluminum, Aluminum oxide, Aluminum silica Asbestos Beryllium, Beryllium carbide, Beryllium oxide Carbon (Graphite) Glass (E-glass,...
Now THAT would be a radical departure! A stylist coming in physical contact with the medium ... how indecorous. How could you suggest such a...
I understand that none of those allegations ever made it to court. Some were settled because with what has to be a 95 percent profit margin they...
Fair enough. I intentionally used that term to pull the renderings down from the vaulted heights to which some purchasers of yacht design software...
That is a good example and has some interesting elements re the artistic elements. The core issue of that case was addressed earlier in the...
Hi-jacked? No just asking questions and posing situations to keep the discussion going. I find this thread interesting and amusing. It got you to...
Yeah, it took me less time than you because I didn't have to compile the list. :D
Thanks but as a writer I am very well versed in intellectual property law, and having had my own photos and animations used without permission I...
That's fine with me, I'm not a designer or a lawyer. So far though, no one, least of all me, has said anything other than the pretty picture is...
Have I? Are you saying that individual desginers or design shops don't look at the picture and tweak it just enough to satisfy their...
Because a profile drawing is only that, a drawing. Whatever happened to those thousands of pages of law concerning this stuff? Surely the...
BjornS asked "... whether to publish images of new and original concept yacht designs (make public on the internet or in printed magazines) ... ."...
That is what I have been trying to get across. Yes, and the group that designs it and builds it gets the money. Let's propose a scenario. I...
The question still exists, is a pretty picture created by a graphic artist a vessel "design?" I think not. I think it is a pretty picture and...
No, I am just trying to express my opinion that an artist's conception such as we often see on this site and others is not a design. It is a work...
So "intent" is now protected property? I just don't see how a pretty picture and a dream of making it reality is anything more than a pretty...