From Ernie Longmire Sent Thu, Jul 15th 1999, 15:57
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:11:08AM -0400, ! & the Quaternions wrote: > The basic thing about copyright is that if you fail to defend it, you lose > it. Once people started using Amen and not getting sued, it became fair game > for everyone else. Not to start a copyright thread, but this is incorrect. You're thinking of trademarks, which have to be actively protected or they're lost -- copyrights only go away if they expire or if the copyright holder explicitly assigns the work into the public domain. And they don't expire for a *long* time (getting longer all the time as Big Media lobbies Congress to keep the cash cow moo-ing.) -- Lazlo Nibble - xxxxx@xxxxxx-xxxxxx.xxx - http://www.studio-nibble.com --