Wow, both SRI and MCI in the same day! This is really exciting! (01)
At this point, we have obtained enough information to reasonably assert
that NLS/Augment is an orphan work. (02)
Phil, thanks for all of your hard work on this legal work. It feels
great to have a conclusion to all of this. (03)
Jonathan (04)
Philip Gust wrote:
> I wanted to share the good news on SRI with the nls-legal list.
> Together with the release from Verizon, which we also received on
> Friday, this completely covers the chain of ownership from SRI to
> Tymshare/Tymnet to McDonnell Douglas to BT to MCI. Thanks to everyone
> for their help with this part of the project! As before, please treat
> this and the Verizon information as "for CHM internal use only" until
> John determines the most appropriate way to announce it publicly.
>
> Best regards,
>
>> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:08:11 -0700
>> From: Richard Cramer <richard.cramer@sri.com>
>> Subject: NLS copyright
>> To: gust@NouveauSystems.com
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>> Dear Mr. Gust:
>>
>> It was nice speaking with you yesterday. I have attached my proposed
>> NLS copyright dedication letter to the Computer History Museum for
>> your review. As we discussed, I identified SRI as having held the NLS
>> copyright, and of dedicating it for all non-commercial purposes.
>> Since the records of our sale of NLS to Tymshare in 1977 are not
>> available, I have assumed that, even if we transferred the copyright
>> to Tymshare, we would have retained some rights for its use in research.
>>
>> If this letter is OK with you, I will send it to Mr. Toole.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
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