Copyright Notice

It would seem to me to be more productive to just develop the Preliminary Specification and forget about these politics and fighting with Goliath. Pretty naive eh? This is a follow on post to the one entitled “Three Times Lucky?” This copyright notice deals with the law and political facts of copyright law and the implications regarding those laws.

The Preliminary Specification, the innovation in oil and gas blog of which you are reading this, the Preliminary Research Report and other material are the Intellectual Property (IP) of Paul D. Cox. This IP has been developed at significant cost with the expressed purpose to provide the oil and gas industry with solutions to the industries issues. They are not to be used in any other form or manner other than what I deem is appropriate. All of my efforts have been to develop the marketplace for these ideas, and to help the oil and gas producer through the IP that is developed here. The laws of the countries in which we operate support these actions. Any unauthorized use of these ideas is forbidden.

I therefore place the CEO’s, CFO’s, COO’s, Officers and Directors of all of the oil and gas producers that are operating in the Canadian and United States jurisdictions on notice that any unauthorized use of my Intellectual Property is forbidden. These copyright laws are established laws, and you are lawful corporations. And yes, this notice does extend explicitly to those participants, past and present, of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers CIO Committee. The law applies to you as well.

Consumers of the Android operating system could care less that Google has violated Oracle's Java Developer Kit. Producers who invest millions in their ERP system will conduct significant due diligence to ensure their vendors Intellectual Property claims are valid.

The Preliminary Specification provides the oil and gas producer with the most profitable means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy.

Three Times Lucky?

We need to take a quick break from the Research & Capabilities module to take care of some housekeeping duties.

Goliath has made the first move! Goliath is the name that I’m going to start calling the oil and gas bureaucracy. It makes them more human and puts our battle into context. Anyway it was just a matter of time before we started mixing it up. With the Preliminary Specifications decentralized production model providing $94 billion in additional revenues and profits to the oil and gas producers. Goliath wasn't looking all that attractive. Goliath needed to do something before these ideas became too prevalent in the marketplace. So now Goliath has acted and he put another pawn in place, and its Ernst & Young. Let me be the first to welcome them and to note that they join an esteemed cohort. Previous pawns included Cambridge Energy Research Associates and McKinsey Consulting. So they should honestly consider themselves privileged.

What Goliath does is he hires these firms and has them prepare some research that replicates certain elements of the Preliminary Specification, as in the Ernst & Young case, or other research of People, Ideas & Objects. Note that their research or studies are derivative of my Intellectual Property of which I am the copyright holder. They, the pawns, then proceed to publish the material as if they have some breakthrough in terms of oil and gas understanding. But then I call. Then its not so earth shattering when we compare notes. The fact that Ernst & Young has published a study that is surprisingly similar to the decentralized production model. That they pull this miraculously out of thin air. That this is highly inconsistent with the output of a big audit firm and their past papers. Makes Ernst & Young look poorly and Goliath should be ashamed of himself. Ernst & Young, who I believe understands the Intellectual Property laws, doesn’t appear however to share Cambridge's or McKinsey moral and ethical backbone.

The first mention of the decentralized production model in this blog is in January 5, 2007. You can check for yourself. The development of the idea obviously took a few years, but then I’m not as smart as those guys at Ernst & Young. The fact that both of us have topical solutions to the industries problems, at the same time, is the point. But wait, People, Ideas & Objects are a comprehensive software and service offering, and Ernst & Young are a study! Well maybe I’m not that slow after all.

The bigger picture here is that Goliath is not that well. He is old, tired and doesn’t have that much usable life in front of him. I don’t know what his exact medical issues are but there seems to be a lot of medical people around him at all times. Its understandable that he is fighting for his life. Like other bureaucracies that are faced with their ultimate demise as a result of Information Technologies, they can’t sustain too much more of a beating. As I said $94 billion in opportunity costs for 2012 alone is a distinct value proposition that People, Ideas & Objects provides the oil and gas industry. Goliath can’t sit there and do nothing in the face of such obvious value destruction. So let Goliath fight for a few more days, the game is afoot and I feel like a few good rounds with the old boy.

The Preliminary Specification provides the oil and gas producer with the most profitable means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy.