At 06:24 PM 2/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>At 06:08 PM 2/22/99 , Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>>Interesting article:
>>
>>http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2213166,00.html
>>
>>This is the first time I can recall NSI publicly stating that they own the
>>information [in] the .com, .net, and .org zone files.
>
>Well, they have actually said it many, many times, as long as a year ago.
>
>Never mind that everything in the file is authored by personnel other than
>NSI. I, for example, authored the information in the part of the file
>relating to my domain names.
>
I authored the article "Government Ownership of Copyrights," 29 U.
West L.A. L. Rev 149-164 (1998), which is noted at my web page
http://cerebalaw.com/biog.htm and which treats the ownership (or
even existence!) of copyrights in works authored by those who act
at the behest of the Federal (or any other) Government. I have a
number of copies available, and would be glad to send a copy to
anyone who sends a SASE -- self-addressed, stamped envelope
-- to:
William S. Lovell
17630 S. W. Butternut Dr.
Aloha, OR 97007
(It would be a brown manila, not a regular letter size.)
The issue would be one of "control," and I distinctly remember a
little birdy telling me the other day that it was the Government,
not NSI, that established the .com, .net and .org TLDs. :-)
The impetus for writing the article, I might add, was found in my
discovery that at that time there was virtually NOTHING on the
WIPO home page to which access was not restricted. My
comments on that situation at http://cerebalaw.com/copyright.htm
-- or at http://cerebalaw.com/intnet.htm -- I forget which, were
modified from my initial blast at the past to a more cordial note
on WIPO. Should I change that back now? :-)
(If you go to that page, the guy you see is not me but my ugly,
evil twin. But check out the great guitar!)
Bill Lovell
