Your advice to the OP that he seek legal counsel is certainly safe advice. However, before he takes that route, he really should brush up on IP law himself, so that he will understand what the legal counsel will say to him. Besides: if he is an attentive reader, he can learn most of what he needs to know from a good book on IP law in computing, at a much lower expense.
Why, the book I learned it from (well enough to keep myself out of the trouble he is now in) is now available for a dirt cheap price on Amazon. It is "The Legal Environment of Computing" by Peter & James Fitzsimons Knight. That said, I have to admit: when a book is that cheap on Amazon, it is usually because it is dated. But in this case, I really do believes the fundamentals are the same, what has 'dated' the book is that it does not cover the issues since then opened up by mashups and AMVs, where licensed material is used and 'fair use' is claimed under circumstances that would not have been considered plausible for 'fair use' back when Peter & James Fitzsimons Knight wrote their book. On May 6, 10:54 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Angry Developer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmm, but I see on market many themes like mine. They all will be > > banned similarly?(for example - the ADW "Tron" theme from another > > developer with 10000 downloads or ADW nexus S Gingerbread(!) theme - > > also on top). Therefore, it is unclear to me why some of this similar > > products are blocked, while others - not? > > This is clearly spelled out in the Android Market developer > distribution agreement. You need to speak with qualified legal > counsel, who can educate you on the agreement's terms and conditions. > > > For my themes I used materials that are freely available. Namely, I > > used the images found in "Google images ". > > You need to speak with qualified legal counsel, who can educate you on > copyrights, trademarks, and piracy. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 3.4 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
