... I'm a missionary among a primitive tribe in South America. Even these people here know the difference between the "copias" (bootleg copies) of movies and...
So now he had a new GPS but no longer has a working unlock ... In the netherlands when we would lost a gps we also can ask garmin to change the codes for a new...
... The GPS was not lost by the customer, it get lost during the shipping from garmin to the dealer. So the shipping insurance had to pay for a new gps. Garmin...
Hi I've been following the discussion with interest. But my doubts are more concerned with the first question that must be placed. Are or are not our maps...
In my opinion the copyright laws applied by Garmin make the purchase of a Garmin product seem more a "lending for money" than a purchase: The firmware is owned...
I have inherited a map from someone else and hae noticed when I add poly lines of the same class they appear (in Mapedit) with a slightly different width. Is...
Hi - newbe here! I have a Garmin NUVI 760 and I want to put a map of Israel on it that I downloaded from Mapcenter2, it is a .mp file. Is that the right file...
I am drawing roads in Mapedit and am unsure of their class, for example whether it is a Collector of Residential st. Also when do you draw a road as 2 lines -...
On Monday 24 November 2008, my mailbox was graced by a missive ... Donr know about the Nuvi, but anyway the .mp file is the source code, you want the .img...
On Thursday 27 November 2008, my mailbox was graced by a missive ... Dual-carriageways. Cheers, Ron. -- Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human...
... Note that the article does NOT say that they cannot be copyrighted. The non-lawyer says "It is likely that attempting to obtain a design patent for a new...
... When you returned the GPS, they know that it is esentially impossible that you would ever have that GPS again and the old code could no longer be used by...
... Yes, it is a Garmin format. The format is proprietary. As far as I know, Garmin has not published the format. They may change it at any time. Obviously,...
... Also note that reverse-engineering file formats /is/ illegal in many jurisdictions. Garmin has not published the format for its map files: the various...
Interesting angle. In what jurisdictions is it illegal to reverse engineer a file format? Garmin is well aware of the existence of third party tools and third...
... Even if the outcome is not to steal the material contained within the file format? Are you saying it would be illegal to make your own file in someone...
... The US. The DCMA prohibits circumvention of technological protection methods. Keeping a file format confidential, or including any sort of weirdness that...
... Nobody knows: it's untested in court. ... How is knowledge of a file format /not/ intellectual property ? If I spend time and money inventing a file...
... Simon, Good point. I guess the line between the file format (merely a container) and the data it contains (the intellectual property) blurs if you were...
I think that the format of a file is software, which could be covered by a patent. This is demonstrated by the GIF/LZW format whose patent was owned by Sperry....
... Exactly. They've added to GPSes practically every extra device and user feature that is possible. I'm all set if I want to jump out of an airplane or go...
On Saturday 29 November 2008, my mailbox was graced by a missive ... ISTR that in that precise case, what was patented was the LZW compression algorithm;...
... Yes... Actually, i work with people here in the USA that probably have less knowledge about copyright than your friends there in South America. I see it...
Don't forget that also Copyright alters dependent on location. With software and DVD's for example - in EU you can sell on the material and licence as long as...
On Discovery Channel - they are featuring a program that aims to re-engineer the Dinosaur ! Shades of Jurassic Park. Raster charts ? Same thing ? I have long...
A Spanish based company created a software that accepts both vector maps and raster maps. Program is called TwoNav and works with Teleatlas vector maps for ...
