I do appreciate the complexities, and the efforts Issaries seems to be making, however belatedly, given that these issues have been raised over twelve months.
And I appreciate your candor:
>"Issaries owns everything. You may only use >anything with express written permission... All your derivative works are >belong >to us."
Now that at least is honest. And clear. :)
I'd tinker just a little...
"Issaries claims to own everything. You may only use anything with express written permission. All your derivative works are belong to us"
and perhaps
'Issaries asserts its moral right to not recognise you as the author of your work.'
One of the basic issues here seems to be the American legalistic world view and its intersection with common concepts of trust, common courtesy, business ethics and adminstrative competence, not to mention the question as to whether a communal, sharing, genre-driven, idea-stealing-errr-adapting, continually-recycle-basic-concepts hobby can in fact thrive or even survive in an environment increasingly held to ramsom by {insert adjectives of choice] legalistic capitalism.
The hobby seems to be barely hanging on. If there is a future ten or twenty years down the track, it will probably be either a highly centralised and minor offshoot of online computer games run by megacorps (with large a no doubt healthy law divisions), or open source. Me I'm working on the latter. But then, I've never liked wearing suits, even when ensconced in the heart of bureacracy.*
And I have great sympathy and support for Issaries in its efforts to survive and make a way forward.
Hardly an issue confined to Issaries alone, of course. And not one we're going to solve here. However, adminstrative competance and legal issues are separate, and should neither be conflated nor confused.
So you'd fire Issaries for attempting to explain what's its doing? {That's a simplificatinof what you said of course). Interesting, and itself a revelation of sorts. Jeff, another lawyer, seems to think its a good idea. I do take your point about complexity however. And, I say again, look forward to the FAQ, Idiot's Guide, and *any* sort of public statement from II.
BTW, can Issaries sell on those rights of theirs (ours)?
And there seems to be something very strange happening with my .sig file...
Bugger.
John
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>From Single vision and Newton's sleep!
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| > Well then, it's easily fixed. A single, clear
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| > A short, simple and direct company charter or
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