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Old January 5, 2016   #62
Fred Hempel
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LOL. Great idea! Post so many types of photographs that even if they take a unique photograph, you can claim it was so much like a photograph that you took that it was essentially copied.

Actually, though, I am fine with the limitations that go with releasing OP varieties, and I am fine with not having control of Blush and other OP varieties I have released. And, it is nice to have such a large diversity of freely available OP genetics to work with.

But that doesn't mean I want to pledge to ONLY produce freely available OP varieties with little means to recoup development costs (or horrors, with little means to make a profit).


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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie View Post
I have an idea. Before you release a new OP tomato, you should plaster photographs of it everywhere. Then, when someone else inevitably tries selling your variety, even if they take their own photo, we'll sue them over the photo, claiming it is substantially similar to yours. IP law rewards those who are aggressively litigious.
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