Re: Ancient wares and present values

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote

> Sure, one can draw that conclusion, but it is somewhat irrelevant to the
> issue of property rights that I was addressing, and is not how copyright
law
> operates.
>
> The initial post by Flaymerz premised the opinion that there is no
financial
> loss on the assertion that L&S Computerware is out of business.  But that
> assertion clouds the fact that the assets of L&S (no doubt including any
> intellectual property) are owned by another firm which is very much *in*
> business.
>
> Thus, finders keepers does not apply, any more than it would with any
other
> type of property that an owner possesses.
>
> It is also misleading to maintain that lack of value defeats intellectual
> property rights.  It only limits potential damages.
>

Rather than wasting bandwidth and cluttering up CSA2 with this drivel, why
not do us all a favor and head for your public library? There you'll find a
copy machine. Just park your butt in a chair next to it, and you can object
to copyright infringement from opening to closing time. Think of how much
happier you'll be. If your specialty is software copyrights, how about a
computer show? Make yourself a badge and accost software vendors selling
dubious cdroms. It's a safe bet that there is more copyright infringement
of, say, Win98 every 5 minutes than there is in 5 years of A2 software of
all types.
But in any case, please stop wasting everyone's time with pedantic,
irrelevant dreck.  No one is going to pay the slightest heed to it.
-Paul