[pct-l] 2005 revision of "Yogi's PCT Handbook"

[pctl at ilja.ws (Ilja Friedel)]

Hi Blisterfree,

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Brett wrote:

>> Don't know how folks got so sideways on this message.  He never said not 
>> to charge for the PDF.  It would just save Yogi money not to have to print 
>> and mail, and she's already using PayPal.  Makes perfect sense to me.
>
> C'mon now. The guy posted a version of the above subject heading pretexted 
> with the word "LIES."

Scott never suggested that Yogi should give her work away for free. He 
said to make the handbook available as pdf on her website. (This is 
something that Amazon.com does with some books, as well as smaller 
publishers a Nolo press.) At which point _you_ started to rant some 
misperceived ideas about copyright, illegal profit and so on. I tried to 
explain to you that Yogi could protect herself with a copyright 
registration - which she did. As a consequence she can fairly easily sue 
anybody who illegally distributes copies of her work. In other words: Yogi 
could make a killing if somebody was stupid enough to do what you 
repeatedly suggested. So just stop trying to "defend" Yogi. I'm sure she 
knows how to take care of herself.


Ilja.