[Jewelry making - Article 00006] - Re: [Orchid] Family crest design cad/cam

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    Dear Dave and Scott: Thank you for your reply. 

>      I would think a family crest is not any ones intelectual property
>     unless they made it up, my own family crest is available on the
>     clan web site. 

    True, but even if 99% of the family crest is in the public domain,
    and the one you copied is not, this is no defense for you.  You are
    required to treat every design as somebody's else intellectual
    property, unless you can shop that it is in the public domain. 

    Scott's comment was I tried to purchase the  art and the other party
    would not sell.  This for me is a red flag that a problem is in the
    making. It would take Scott less time to find this answer then it
    would take to read all the e-mail posted on this thread.  All he
    needs to do is call and ask. That party will most likely tell him if
    he claims that the design is his intellectual property. 

>     And most vectorazation is not that difficult to do .   

    True, unless you have to change your basic design due to infringement
    issues. 

>     As far as I know Scott is a responsible person and is not ripping
>     off anyone elses work. As a user and instructor in CAD CAM
>     equipment it is my experience that most users are not copy cats 

    If all it took was reasonableness, the courts would not be filled
    with good honest hard working defendants.  If latter were true, than
    my business would not be growing.  Most people infringe out of
    ignorance and never intended to infringe.  The penality for inocent
    infringement is steep!  This also includes the cost of your attorney. 

>      and the costs preclude it being a toy. 

    I should have added LOL! Mike Rufenach

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