On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Seth Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > If it's copyright, the judge won't do that. There's no such thing as > an "exclusive right to use" in copyright.
Hi Seth, IP addresses are definitely not copyrights. Or trademarks, patents or trade secrets. So far as I know, they're not any kind of *intellectual* property whose existence derives from statute and, in the U.S., from the Constitution itself. I suspect they're Common Law *Intangible* Property which is something else entirely. At least they are in common law jurisdictions which includes all of the U.S. and Canada and if I'm not mistaken everywhere else in the ARIN region as well. Much of Europe operates on Roman Civil Law rather than English Common Law. The legal foundations over there are so different I couldn't begin to speculate how IP addresses fit. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
