This Letter in the Chron

if one of MY customers complained in that manner

I'd be chuffin delighted.</p>

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Nowt wrong with that nt

 

Tone's a bit harsh

Good on the club for giving it back to you nasty Southerners with bells on!!!

 

like I said in an earlier thread...

a ST reported as Lost/Stolen is easily traceable back to the system that they record who has what ticket. each book has a "book number"....

Its not hard to give a list of Lost/Stolen books at each turnstyle on a sheet of a4.

After all, people have to present the whole book at the turnstyle as part of another condition anyway, how hard is it to look at book number, then look at a4.


Simple things are not always implemented due to lack of common sense.

either that, or the system they use is not able to allocate a new book number to there customers, and if thats the case, than they aint used a proper evaluation method on the system.

 

CRAP

Per the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, copyright protects the expression of an idea such as literary 'works' - i doubt a letter from business to customer can truely be classed as a literary work in the same way as a noval.

Also, if the work is created in the course of employment the employer owns the copyright not the employee, unless contractualy agreed - so our friend Don probably doesnt own the copyright, if there is one in the first place, making his statement a load of crap.

Also the remedy for breach of copyright is either an injunction to stop it being used again, or damages to recover any loss on the part of the copyright holder. Exactly what loss would result I dont know, therefore it would be a pointless exercise to watse the club's money.

 

Was it an email reply you received?

If so that will, more than likely, be the automated signature.

Many companies attach to the bottom a disclaimer or wording to say that information should not be passed on....albeit worded slightly better.

 

but to claim "copyright", don't you have to register it

ie this is an individual personal letter, and I thought to claim a copyright, you have to get a date/postmark (obvioulsy covered by the date on the letter), and then register it via a solicitor first. (similir to a patent)

or am I talking ********


plus, the statement says "may result in legal action"

that deesn't say it will mean legal action...


therefore a threat, but probably holds no legal stance, and probably designed to put people off

 

Nah

Theres no formal registration, once the expression of an idea exists copyright exists

 

RE: Thats the club's attitude yes nt

If the club threaten to sue you, can they only do this by virtue of a claim for damages arising from any loss to them as a result of your publishing?

What damage would the club suffer by virtue of your publishing?

 

Moan, moan, moan!

The club is just doing it's best to maximise revenue,that's business.At last we have a hard-nosed businessman running things. The club is out of the red thanks to tough decisions like these, you should be praisingthe new policy not criticising it.