Re: FN-FORUM: Intellectual Property

date posted 1st August 2005 15:07

For my part I've turned to .NET. In VS.NET 2005 I compile everything.
Additionally, I turn as much into components as possible for, where there's
an "out" on general code the defence being that it is just that (general),
there's no out on a boxed component.

If you want to take the business raid approach, assuming you are wholly in
the right and the culprit is a limited company or partnership, let them
trade with your code for a while (assuming you haven't signed or otherwise
authorised is reuse) then use a boxed set of legal remedy including in the
writ damages, fraud, theft (in England, not Scotland), interdicts, orders
for suspension of use and recall (with interim suspension and interdict) and
orders against the individual(s) said to have breached IPR. At the same time
send a letter offering in settlement to take proportionate ownership of the
company/firm (always assuming there's liquidity) and/or financial settlement
and/or passing over of lucrative contracts. Their financial position will in
the alternative be to pay legal expenses (around £40-250k) or settle. If you
put your offer in a sealed envelope into the court process (called a tender)
then they would have to beat that in the whole case or face paying all legal
expenses, regardless.

...but if you want a peaceful life, just get on with carrying out existing
contracts and finding new ones and treat any supposed loss as life
experience instead of waiting for long-teethed monsters to appear through
the floorboards.

Tam Denholm wrote:
> On 1 Aug 2005 14:07:37 -0000, Mike A [EMAIL REMOVED]
> wrote:
>> Oooops! Apologies if I seemed terse... more to do with the 1001
>> things going on here than the subject matter.
>>
>> However, this is an issue important to all freelancers. In so far as
>> IPRs go no contract is highly protective.
>>
>> Mike A.
>
> Im beginning to think i should start encoding all my scripts. I had a
> look around, one recommendation was IonCube, its cheaper than the zend
> one. The only other way ive seen to do it in php is to use the gzip
> library in php along with bas64 encoding and run that through 10 or
> more times, reversing it on runtime, but this is easy to de-code for
> anyone that knows php.
>
> Does anyone else rely on this method for protecting thier work or does
> anyone completely rely on legal methods. I suppose encoding could be
> used as a method for preventing legal issues arising.
>
> Thanks
> Tam Denholm
> www.dreadlabs.com
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