IUBio

It's primitive; it's dumb (PLAUSIBLE definitions?)

Jim Balter jqb at sandpiper.net
Thu Jul 29 01:02:25 EST 1999


X wrote:
> 
> Steve wrote:
> 
> > The sender owns the copyrights, but the
> > reciepient owns the right to distribute the information given him
> > any way he wishes.
> 
> I'd like to see this legally tested. It is my understanding that if I have
> copyright over some material, no-one can distribute it in any way without
> specific permissions.
> 
> What I'm getting at, is that if I send some work to someone to proofread, I
> don't believe they have the right to sell or publish that material without
> my specific sayso.

Good ole Steve is wrong here, and elsewhere.  A copyright is,
of course, a *copy* right.

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<J Q B>




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