Charlie
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So... thank you for your concern and I beleive Jim and I can agree on that? But, let me see if I have this right...? You are giving US and this entire forum advice, but YOU don't even have the courtesy of providing YOUR correct email address? [?]quote:Originally posted by Peahead
Sorry Jim and Charlie I know this should be put to rest but I just saw this now as I haven't been on the site for a bit . I hope you guys ( and everyone else here) doesn' mind me saying how I feel about this.
I scanned through all these posts and I think its too bad that Jim and Charlie ran into this "you did copy" "no I didn't copy" issue.
I don't really understand what happened but I do know Charlie feels certain Jim copied Charlie's custom charts/Maps with fishing spots added.
I also know that Jim says he didn't copy Charlie's customized charts/Maps and that Jim's fishing spots on his maps charts were spots learned on his own.
Navionics charts surely are very heavily copyrighted so no one should publish navionics charts without their permission ( this site would be much less of a problem as Navionics would likely not care at all about references to their charts. After all its free advertising for them. Neither Charlie nor Jim should ever claim copywright on their customized charts/maps and publish them unless they got written permission from Navionics first.
The idea of colouring fishing areas on a chart is common so unless Charlie published custom maps with shading where an obvious style shape/detail of shading with identical sized spots and identical written information arrows etc etc. (and there was proof beyond a doubt that they were copied) , it would never even come close to a lawsuit.
Here is the simple way of looking at this without all the stuff about claiming copywright:
Jim is simply saying he didn't copy the maps that Charlie designed. We have to decide whether Jim is telling the truth and if Jim is telling the truth , great and Charlie is mistaken. If Jim did copy Charlie's maps, even a little....he shouldn't have without asking Charlie and then mentioning Charlie in a credit.
No matter who did what to whom in this case, just plain simple common lesson: we should treat others the same as we want to be treated.
Thank you, but under those conditions... Jim and I will work out our own problems!!!![:0]