Copyright is a technical legal issue.  One that can sometimes benefit from a legal opinion of a qualified attorney (of which I am not).  It is also clear that sometimes copyright holders may over reach themselves and claim rights that do not properly belong to them.

As a professor told me many years ago there are 2 rules of research:

# 1 -- You can say anything that you want to say
#2 -- Just because you say it doesn't make it so

It is well to remember that intellectual property rights are different than other property rights in that they are temporary as defined by law.

I thought that readers of the list might find the website from the electronic frontier foundation to be of interest since it relates to the copyright topic


http://www.eff.org/cases/umg-v-augusto

David Gaynon
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