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  • From: Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Permaculture definitions,
  • Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:49:58 -0800

On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:54 AM, venaurafarm wrote:

> Phil Ferraro, Director
> Institute for Bioregional Studies
> writes about Permaculture:
> "The term, permaculture, was patented by, Bill Mollison in
> the early 1970's

Just want to correct, probably unnecessarily, the error about Pc being
patented. It never was patented or trademarked. Bill misunderstood copyright
law and stated and wrote wrongly, many times, that permaculture was a
copyrighted term. No one can copyright a word, an idea, concept, or a process
(the last can be patented). He could have trademarked the term but did not,
and when he or someone else tried years later, I believe that the trademark
office ruled that the term is now too widely used to be trademarked, and is
in the public domain.

Chaos rules.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com







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