On 12/18/09, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > I'm doubtful that it's correct to say “If it's copyright, it has an > owner”. Copyright is *not* a property right; it's a different monopoly > right. Monopolies are held; that doesn't make the holder of a monopoly > the “owner” in a property sense. > > IANAL, but it seems the attempt to frame copyright as property is not > founded in its inception nor its effects.
As much as a lot of us want to disagree with it, the law does explicitly state that copyright is property - see e.g. Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) s196(1): "Copyright is personal property..." -- Andrew Donnellan <>< andrew[at]donnellan[dot]name http://andrew.donnellan.name ajdlinux[at]gmail[dot]com http://linux.org.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org