[MR] Crown Dseign Competition Eligibility

[Peters, Rise J.]

I'd like to suggest that this discussion has been interesting and enlightening' and I would prefer NOT to see it taken off-line.

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> From: egeorges [mailto:egeorges at cox.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:09 PM
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: [MR] Crown Dseign Competition Eligibility
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> Phillip,
> 
> The contest was opened to the mundane world because last time we had a
> design competition for crowns  we did not get any entries, 
> and ended up with
> the "Sea World" crowns.  The committee was requested to open 
> the competition
> wider than just the SCA to encourage a broader range of 
> designs, and we did.
> The goal here is to obtain the best design possible, not to 
> engage in some
> kind of insular SCA-centric nepotism.   My guess is that Scadians will
> probably have a better idea of what we're looking for than 
> non-Scadians, but
> that's no reason to limit our options.  
> 
> But the real reason for the limitation on eligibility is 
> about decreasing
> potential for regulation, not litigation.  Transfers of intellectual
> property are different from transactions involving other 
> types of property,
> particularly when done across international boundaries.  Most 
> countries try
> to protect intellectual property created by their citizens from being
> exported, and there are numerous laws and treaties that could become
> applicable to this situation should the winning design come 
> from outside the
> United States.  Rather than run the risk of having to comply 
> with a complex
> set of regulations, we limited the eligibility to U.S. residents.  
> 
> As for defending our own intellectual property rights, the point of
> obtaining ownerhsip of the design isn't really to maintain strict
> exclusivity of the design as to other people (although 
> admittedly, it would
> be upsetting to see the crowns of Atlantia on the head of 
> anyone but our own
> King and Queen), but to assure our right to produce the 
> winning design in
> exactly the way that we see fit.  There is a licensed attorney on the
> Committee, so these issues have been reviewed by someone with some
> expertise.  
> 
> If you still have questions, please contact me offline so we 
> don't take up a
> whole lot of bandwidth.
> 
> In Service,
> Luce Antony Venus
> New Regalia Committee
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