permaculture

[venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 11/28/2012 2:49 PM, Toby Hemenway wrote:
> 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.

I should add a footnote reflecting that, w/o altering the original text.

Thanks for the clarification, Toby.

Have you looked at the Paleo diet? There is some pretty heavy stuff 
there. I read through this at the time the BB article came out and was 
impressed. LL

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