Both interesting and disturbing.  More so interesting to me though.
Now I wish I had entered a lot of things into the IRTC ; )
The fact there is a considerable number from a single source like a
IRTC CD is odd in that it would (or should) have been obvious of the
copyrights.

Bob

Alan Kong <ako### [at] pacbellNO-SPAMnet> wrote in message
news:U=zuNxpJIpWFysmH5I96T5Dcai0w@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:40:37 +1000, "Lance Birch"
<lan### [at] usanet>
> wrote:
>
> >The use of the image(s) is not an infringement if the book was
somehow
> >promoting the IRTC competition and its associated activities, or if
the
> >image was being used by a sponsor to demonstrate their
products/services
> >(such as quality of printing by a sponsor that is a printing
service).
>
>   Gautam said in his post that it is a college textbook. Judging by
its
> title it probably doesn't contain advertising or promotion of a
product
> between its covers.
>
> >Otherwise, I'd seriously think of finding out how the hell it got
in that
> >book!!!
>
>   The author either downloaded it from the IRTC pages or got the
images from
> an official IRTC CD-ROM, which is also a copyright violation. These
images
> are not public domain and someone else is profiting from Gautam's
work.
>
> --
> Alan
> http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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