On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:51:58 -0600, david.williams@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David
Williams)
wrote:
>Discuss it with a lawyer. There are aspects to copyright law that may
>work in your favour. For example, it has to be actively enforced. If
>someone owns the copyright to a work, and someone else copies it
>without permission, the copyright owner *must* take steps to end the
>infringement. If he doesn't, then after a while the copyright may be
>deemed to have lapsed, and after that anyone can copy the work without
>permission.
If that were truly the case, then Microsoft would have lost the rights to
virtually all their operating systems.
I suspect that when you said
>"someone else copies it
>without permission, the copyright owner *must* take steps to end the
>infringement."
the active enforcement would really require the odd pursuit rather than
the
implied "each and every" that I for one read into your statement.
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