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.
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