Well, if everything else is a derivative...then how can anyone claim to
be the original owner? I mean how many original owners can you have?
There can only be one, whether the license says you can transfer it to
10,000 people...right?
Why can't there be more than one? Why can't there be 10 or 10,000? I've collaborated with others on both fiction and non-fiction works. In many cases there is no single, original owner for a program, story or musical work. Who "owns" a piece of improvisational jazz created live by a group of five or six (or 20 or 50) musicians?
So help me understand your earlier point. To charge that someone has violated a copyright, doesn't the original owner have to make the charge? Otherwise, we don't know where the true property rights ----started right?
I have trouble with this endless emphasis on "true property rights" and attempts to squeeze every possible penny out of every transaction. I create original articles and stories -- what some would call "intellectual property" -- for a living (and make a pretty decent living at it), but I am old enough to remember the days when Selfishness and Greed were considered sins -- and mortal ones, at that.
God and I still believe they are. We are obviously out of step with the times, aren't we?
- Robin
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