[MR] Crown Dseign Competition Eligibility

[Phillip Jones]

Are you saying that Atlantia is prepared to vigorously pursue and defend the
intellectual rights should they be violated? This is horribly expensive and
time consuming; think 100k region. What are we planning to do with the
"legal rights" to the crowns? Who has legal rights to the other crowns?

Maybe it is just me. I am pretty slow, I know, so please explain to me in
simple language why getting a set of crowns made is so much hassle? I used
to deal with artisans from all over the world, and just don't see what you
are planning as rising to the level of litigation you seem to be defending
against......

And frankly, I think it SHOULD be limited to SCA members. Keep it in la cosa
nostra.

-----Original Message-----
From: atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of egeorges
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:18 AM
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [MR] Crown Dseign Competition Eligibility

Greetings!

Some have expressed dismay that the Crown Design Competition is limited to
U.S. Residents only.  Unlike an ordinary A&S competition, where most of the
entrants are attendees of the event, or at the very least play regularly in
the SCA, we will be dealing with individuals who in some instances have no
experience with our organization.  Also, this competition is unique in that
Atlantia will obtain legal rights over the winning entry.   A public
international competition in which the Kingdom of Atlantia will take
possession of the winning design involving entrants form many nations raises
a whole host of legal issues which we are unprepared to deal with (possible
applicability of import-export laws, treaties governing intellectual
property transfer, etc).  Consequently, the choice was made to limit the
eligibility to United States residents to avoid the expense of dealing with
these issues.

This does unfortunately exclude our neighbors in some other Kingdoms from
entering.  The committee will investigate whether the eligibility may be
expanded to SCA members who are non-U.S. residents, but because of the
nature of the issue, it may be impossible to do so.

Thanks for your understanding.

In Service,

Luce Antony Venus
New Regalia Committee




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