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In article , Sacha writes: | | Not entirely - I am aware that some people think plants don't 'belong' to | anyone but if that attitude prevails, new hybrids and new varieties simply | will cease to come along. Which is why there were so few new varieties developed before that law was passed? Oh, come now! | It costs someone money to produce them on a small | scale for evaluation and then a large scale for selling and that someone or | someones have the law behind them in terms of having the right to be paid | for their work through royalties. That is true. | I think I do know your attitude to this because I think you expressed it | once before when this came up but I might be misremembering. No, I have never expressed it on Usenet, let alone on this group. It is not what you think, and the reason I have never posted it is that my views on the matter are too complex and philosophical for such a medium. | You are not allowing for e.g. Mail order sales. If a plant is not available | locally, which this illegal one would be, most people who really want it | will find somewhere to obtain it by mail order, as we see on here quite | often. They then buy it from a nursery which has paid its dues to the | supplier which get passed back to the breeder. Yes, I am. What you say is true, but you are assuming that all 144 people really want that variety - and remember that the context was that it was being sold as an UNNAMED variety. I doubt that, of those 144, more than a dozen would buy the named variety if they had not bought the unnamed one in a charity sale. | We could argue this 'til the cows come home and I'm not prepared to bore us | all with that. I'll content myself with saying to the OP that selling a few | PBR protected plants for charity almost certainly won't upset anyone but | making your own sideline business out of someone else's PBR protected plants | almost certainly would. Oh, yes, quite agreed. That is a very fair summary. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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