>From: "Brad Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>You have the right to create such a work, and to make use of it personally.
>You do not have the right to distribute it without permission, because it
>is derivative. I personally have never bought into Ryan's theory that the
>whole work is actually the property of the derived material's owner, so I
>think you have some rights to some portions of the material you create, but
>that material may or may not be hopelessly entangled with material you do
>not have rights to.
I think that Ryan understands the situation like that as well. However, the
work is "functionally" the belonging of the original copyright holder...
aside from the fact that *they* can't do anything with it without *your*
permission.
DM
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