-> >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.
Like I said. Discuss it with a lawyer.
dow
