[Scpg] "Permaculture" Copyright. Not. Was: Re: Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, On-Line / i took my PDC with Bill Mollison in Fossil Rim Texas where this was filmed

[Dan Hemenway]

In the United States, individual words cannot be copyrighted, not even coined words.  I don't know about other countries.  I've had Australians claim that 'Permaculture' is copyrighted in their country, but I have no way of knowing if this reflects knowledge, bluff, or simply faithfully passing on misinformation.  Generally, laws affecting international commerce are relatively uniform from country to country.


Mollison was aware of the US law in 1981 when I took the design course from him with 29 other students and a few others who crashed now and again. He requested, therefore, that we register the term as a service mark, like a trademark, and I did so personally in a few states where I hold the sole rights to the term (never yet used restrictively).  It turns out that this process generated a lot of bad feeling, mostly from people who think everything should be free unless it is theirs already, and did not seem worth pursuing.  Had this policy been pursued consistently by others in the permaculture movement, standards for courses would not have eroded and permaculture work would generally be of much higher quality than has been the case.  Trying to fix the problem now is an exercise in futility; once control is abandoned it is almost impossible to reinstate.  


In any case, the claim that the term permaculture is copyrighted is at best valid only in certain countries, and maybe nowhere.  Given the total abandonment of quality control for many years, we are better advised to treat the term as a regular English word that can be added to dictionaries. 


Dan Hemenway
permacltur at aol.com

www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org



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Subject: [Scpg] Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, On-Line / i took my PDC with Bill Mollison in Fossil Rim Texas where this was filmed


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Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, On-Line

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"Permaculture" is a copyrighted word. Only those who have completed a 
72-hour design course are authorized to use the word in commerce.

What is Permaculture?

Who is Bill Mollison?

These videos are documents from two design courses taught by Bill 
Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 1994 
and 1995. They are a definitive selection from our original 16 part 
series. These tapes bear many viewings and will benefit anyone who wants 
to learn how to help regenerate the earth - from back yard to 
bio-region. Teachers of permaculture have found these tapes to be a 
valuable coaching tool - edited to one hour.

The Function Of Design    View Video Online
This is an opening lecture. The principles of functional design for 
sustainability are unique to Permaculture design.
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Fundamentals Of Pattern    View Video Online
 From a singular event all other events are set in motion in 
recognizable and predictable patterns This pattern recognition is the 
core of design in Permaculture.
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Pattern Application    View Video Online
Efficiency of energy, resources, and time, and the creation of highly 
productive systems are the results of good Permaculture design. The 
methods are obvious once we have become co-creative with the forces of 
nature.
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Home Gardening    View Video Online
Find out why it is so important to grow your own food and how to install 
the easiest, and highly productive, home food propagation systems; mulch 
garden, potato box, herb's spiral, and more. You don't need much space. 
These are basic Permacultural techniques.
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Trees 1    View Video Online
The tree is life - profound, magnificent, and mysterious. To learn what 
little we can know of trees is sufficient to leave one awestruck and 
reverent.
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Trees 2    View Video Online
Why is a tree green? Where does a tree end or begin? Why have all human 
societies destroyed the tree? A Mollison rave.
Download video   (162 MB)

Farmer's Trees    View Video Online
These are very specific trees which are used around the world for their 
ability to improve
soils. They are invaluable in range for livestock, as well as in fields 
under cultivation.
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Forests And Woodlands    View Video Online
Methods to plant, sustain, and best utilize woodland and wood for fuel, 
forage, windbreak and construction.
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Pasture And Range Restoration    View Video Online
What is cultura promiscua? To maintain functional bio-diversity is a 
basic tenet of Permaculture. Severely degraded land can be easily 
restored to highly productive land by using good observation techniques, 
plants and animals in succession, and common sense.
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Soil Conditioning    View Video Online
... a continuation of #10. Two main techniques: the chisel-plow, and the 
wonders of worms and how to cultivate them. The patterns described in 
these two videos can be replicated in any type of Permaculture system, 
and scaled to any size.
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Water    View Video Online
...a continuation of the Trees video. Potable water - where does it come 
from? How did it get there? What has become of it? What we can do to 
ensure that we will have safe water to drink, and to conserve as much of 
this precious material as possible.
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Aquaculture
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Once one has learned to harvest water, then the real fun begins with 
production of the myriad of foods and marketable commodities hosted by 
ponds and other water-rich environments.
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Planting In Drylands    View Video Online
There are a multitude of ways to harvest, conserve, and utilize water. 
These strategies apply to coastal regions or islands with with zero 
precipitation, arid lands, as well as to areas with plentiful seasonal 
rainfall.
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Drylands 1    View Video Online
As desert is rapidly claiming vast areas of our planet, millions are on 
the verge of starvation. Yet, crops which occur naturally in arid land 
can provide all necessary nutrition for people and animals. The 
strategies discussed arise from years of observation in the deserts of 
Australia and from the peoples of Kalahari.
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Drylands 2    View Video Online
... continuation of Drylands 1. Never, never irrigate the desert. The 
devastation caused by irrigation of arid land is irreparable. But there 
are alternatives: methods to set up a drought proof system. This is 
serious Permaculture!
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Working at Ground Level    View Video Online
A documentary on the permaculture work done in Ecuador by the Rainforest 
Information Center, Centro de Investigatión de los Bosques Tropicales.
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