this gets even funnier. the whole modern world's approach to copyright, so-called 'intellectual property' and patents is a big farce. but who has the guts of saying out loud: the emperor has no clothes :-( LL
San Diego Company Owns E-Commerce http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/23/197234 Kernel Panic writes "Looks like you can now be [0] sued for using graphical and textural content on your e-commerce site. As everyone who has an e-commerce site does. A [1]company in San Diego was granted one [2] patent for using graphics and text to sell things on the web and [3] another for accepting information to conduct automatic financial transactions via a telephone line & video screen. They have started their crusade with smaller companies that do not have the financial resources to fight back so as to build a "war chest" to take on larger companies like Ebay and Amazon. One [4]site has taken the offense after becoming one of the first defendants of 50 [4]companies so far. Curiously it appears the company was formed in March of 2002, less than a month before filing for the first [5]lawsuit." Links 0. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021020S0002/1 1. http://www.panip.com/ ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
