FW: Attempted theft warning.

[Jeff Harrison]

--- On Mon, 8/30/10, John Esak <john at valar.com> wrote:

> From: John Esak <john at valar.com>
> Subject: RE: FW: Attempted theft warning.
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Cc: "'Timothy R Barr'" <tim.barr at 21appr.com>
> Date: Monday, August 30, 2010, 12:53 PM
> 
[snip]
> 
> Tim is worried that the way he determined how to arrive at
> their "data" will
> be seen by whoever is going to be engaged next.  That
> is like giving away
> his 25 years of experience, and his father's 50 and his
> grandfathers 70....
[snip]

Do you mean that Tim considers the data in the filepro map file to confidential/proprietary/copyrightable?  I guess this could be generalized as "can you copyright metadata"?  I'm sure some legal types out there can expound on this.

Still, though, even if the customer respected the copyright on the map, I can't imagine that it would be illegal for them to derive their own map based on the data...  An who is to say if they actually used the map to do this or not?  It would be difficult to prove one way or the other.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
Author of JHImport and JHExport.