17th May 2010, 05:27 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:care to give theoretical scenario of this spanner
As an example, farmer wants to build houses on his field, takes advice and pays to have some geophysics done before applying for planning. Oops, geophys shows half a Roman town, so he quietly shelves the development plan. The intellectual rights to the geophys are his, he's paid for them and he's going to sue anyone who makes them public....might significantly lower the value of the land, plus b***er-up any plans for developing adjacent bits of land....