The PMFORUM subscribes to the Thomas Jefferson opinion that there were no barriers to the acquisition of knowledge, Nobody owns it, everybody partakes of it- and the world becomes richer.
"If nature has made one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine: as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me"
The problem is that ideas and the form of those ideas are not in practice the free currency that Jefferson saw them to be in their natural state. Governments now award property rights over ideas encapsulated in a work, and on the work's particular form. The former are issued as patents and the latter as copyrights. This is in the interest's of rewarding intellectual effort so as to encourage future invention and intellectual works.
Accordingly, LODAY Systems Ltd., the owner of PMFORUM the Project Management Forum Web Site, registered with the domain name of PMFORUM.ORG recognizes the legal need to ensure the protection of intellectual property.
All pages of the PMFORUM, where the Project Management Institute's intellectual property marks of PMI®, PMP® and PMBOK™ are called up, have been acknowledged intellectual property marks, in accordance with a formal request from the Executive Director of the Project Management Institute dated 11 January, 1999.
Additionally, LODAY System's intellectual property marks of LODAY® and PMFORUM™ are acknowledged as intellectual property marks of LODAY Systems.