[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Good legal thread on the Leaky Lounge

[Lee Storm(God Is The Healing Force)]

[Dumbledad]:
| don't know what kind of Leaky news blackout I'd constructed 
| in my mind 
| but I was pleased to see I was worrying about nothing. It's a great 
| post too, really interesting transcript. I'm still not sure what I 
| think though; arghhhhh.

[Lee]:
Well, we have still to hear Steve's transcript.  I think the guilt falls
more on RDR than Steve.  I would say that, from all the things I've read
including the Leaky transcript, Steve was ill-advised to go ahead with a
written Lexicon.  Originally, I gather he didn't want to do it but, after
some conversations with the publisher, he proceeded to draft it.  It appears
to me that if he had gone to the publisher with the idea and lack of concern
as to infringement, he would be a guilty party, indeed.  However, the fact
that he hesitated and only because he was assured by RDR that there
shouldn't be any infringement problem before he released the draft says to
me that Steve operated with integrity and got bad advice which he followed.
If RDR holds to its contract of handling all the legal costs, etc., then, at
least, Steve won't be taken to the monetary cleaners.

However this turns out, I know valuable lessons will have been learned by
all.  to Steve, I would say next time follow your gut instinct and don't let
anyone change your mind! :)

Cheers,

Lee

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I may not care to lead;   | N2FGC
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I may not care to follow; | n2fgc at optonline.net
Walk beside me, and be my friend.