All,
The American Iris Society has much information and data that is
copyrighted. We have recently sent a "cease and desist" letter from our
Legal
Counsel to Longfield Gardens, LLC, Lakewood, NJ for unauthorized use of
AIS
copyrighted material with iris sales packages at a COSTCO in California.
In addition, various members of AIS have received requests to use and
reproduce AIS copyrighted materials. My questions to the Board are: Who
should be designated to give approval to use our materials? Should we
have
an
internal approval process or not? I don't believe just "anyone" or
everyone
should have such authority. Should the approval point be the President
and Legal Counsel or the Public Relations Chairman? Most of you know
that I
already have plenty on my plate. As an example I just received a request
from Missouri Botanical Garden where Jean and I volunteer as follows:
Jim,
I plan on uploading the iris images I have taken into the gardenbs
(MOBOT)
database which will be accessible to the public. Each taxon has a field
to describe the plant. I want to propose to plant records that we put
the
iris registry information in that field. First I would need permission
to
use the AIS copyrighted information from someone within the organization.
Who should I contact?
Gary
Your opinions and quick feedback would be appreciated.
Jim Morris
President
American Iris Society
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