Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

[Russ Allbery]

Melinda Shore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> If one were to get anal about it, legally intellectual property claims
> have to be actively protected in order to remain valid.

I could be wrong, but I've always heard that this is only true of
trademarks, and at least I don't see anything in the copyright laws in the
U.S. to this effect for copyrights.

And I'd think that a lot of people would have lost their patents if this
were true of patents.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>