Digital BW, The Print

Actually, it's the program designers that really make the difference in how good the profile is that a piece of software turns out.  It's not 'cut and dried'.  There are qualitative decissions that must be made in determining how the software handles the imput values to create a profile.  It's not just plugging in a bunch of numbers.  There's real creative ingenuity behind the scenes.  Otherwise, one program wouldn't be worth more than others.
   
  Tom Baker

john dean <deanwork2003@...> wrote:
  

That makes sense Roy, that it is their software package that is being
restricted, not the capability of the measuring device. Right, that
would be the equivilent of patenting a light meter reading or a
densitometer reading of a duo tone negative reading. But it doesn't
make a lot of sense to me, patenting ANY "profile", generic or
otherwise. It is the technician that does the creative decision making
work and makes the varried measurements and releases it into the
world. We're going to hear a lot more about this as printers become
closer in tolerance and "genric" profiles become more ubiquitious.

John



> The way I read their agreement is that "generic profiles" are the
ones restricted
> unless you've paid for a special more expensive license.
> 
> Custom profiles by a custom profile service are perfectly fine --
this gives
> people an incentive to buy the software and sell a profiling service. 
> 
> The other detail is that it's the profile made with their software
that is copyrighted.
> The measurements are not copyrighted -- they can't copyright the
density value
> on your paper!  So there's no issue with buying their hardware and
feeding the
> data into a different software package.   So making icc profiles
some other way
> is just fine.
> 
> I'm no legal expert but that's the way I interpret it.
> 
> Roy
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
> <deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Exactly Greg,
> > 
> > Atkinson isn't nieve, he's been around the block. I don't know what
> > the big deal is though, a generic profile isn't a cusom profile and
> > never will be.
> > 
> > Which begs the question.... I assume anyone making profiles for a
> > living like Profile City, has a licensing agreement worked out with
> > McBeth or whoever patented their system. 
> > 
> > Now you got me thinking... Roy Harrington or some software guru needs
> > to market his own photospectrometer and open the world up to true
> > democracy! It's only a matter of time before someone does that. (
> > don't tell Epson, they'll do it).
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
> >  Since they are up 
> > > on a private web space, I can only assume that a private agreement 
> > > has been reached.
> > >
> >
>






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