permaculture

[Pacific Edge Permaculture + Media <pacedge@magna.com.au>]

> From: Toby Hemenway <hemenway@jeffnet.org>
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:14:51 -0800

> For the record (and I apologize to those who've heard this), I should point
> out that Mollison did not object to my use of the word "permaculture" in my
> book; his letters to me noted that as a PDC graduate (from his course) I was
> entitled to use the word. He objected to what he called "paraphrasing" of
> passages of his works:

An Australian author of permaculture books received a similar response from
Bill when she published some years back. Once again, Bill's objection was
that she wrote about ideas he alleged were his and, as I recall, that her
text was similar to his.

>my descriptions of patterns, guilds, keyhole beds,
> etc. I had not asked for permission to use these ideas, and he felt I needed
> to, hence the threats.
> 
> Copyright law states otherwise, though: an author cannot prevent anyone from
> writing about any "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation,
> concept, principle, or discovery," regardless of who originated it or how
> much work it took to derive it.

Same as Australian copyright law.

...Russ Grayson