We maintain an "invitation only" website for the purposes of concurrently valid data dissemination and "in-house" dialogue with our embryonic network of (Licenced) Representative Offices. Invitees are at liberty to download "free-issue" formats of programme criteria which displays a copyright logo on the *front cover* and contains a normatively structured "Copyright" clause.
Feedback from various countries indicates that unauthorized reproductions of this criteria are in circulation. Opinion from our territorially-sited advisors suggests that the "free-issue" status of the data may "hinder" our attempts to enforce the copyright clause.
Having spent some 20+ years with an international legal practice in the city of London, I suspect that this "opinion" is based more on an implied "we cannot guarantee success" caveat than on any locally applicable "legal doctrine"!
However, it occurs to me that the subject may qualify as an academically valid and/or operationally relevant "Thought for the day" amongst members?
Regards to all,
Ken Wallace
Chief Executive Officer
SIAS (SPRINGS International Accreditation Service)
kenw[_at_]seneqa.org
Received on Sat Aug 28 1999 - 07:44:16 GMT
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