Posted by: Anonymous
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on July 06, 2008 01:21 AM
"They must enforce their copyrights or they stand to lose them."
Oh my no. Whoever has a copyright has it for however long copyright lasts (somewhere between 50 and 100 years I believe). It eventually expires at which point the work is in the public domain. Ownership of copyright cannot be changed by anyone except the copyright holder.
This is the problem RMS talks about with the term Intellectual Property. People get the rights and privileges of one form of IP mixed up with the others. We have here confusion of Trademark law that does not apply to Copyright or Patent law. The author of the quote better educate his/her self on what they are talking about before trying to school others.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 24.84.196.212] on July 06, 2008 01:21 AMOh my no. Whoever has a copyright has it for however long copyright lasts (somewhere between 50 and 100 years I believe). It eventually expires at which point the work is in the public domain. Ownership of copyright cannot be changed by anyone except the copyright holder.
This is the problem RMS talks about with the term Intellectual Property. People get the rights and privileges of one form of IP mixed up with the others. We have here confusion of Trademark law that does not apply to Copyright or Patent law. The author of the quote better educate his/her self on what they are talking about before trying to school others.
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