On Oct 8, 9:07 pm, cmdr buzz corey
wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
RDH4 COPYRIGHT -- THE MASTER FACT FILE -- reprised
by Andre Jute

COPYRIGHT AS PROPERTY
Copyright is property. Generally speaking, the author of a book
creates the copyright and owns it. In most of the civilized world the
copyright is protected by national and international law for the
author's lifetime plus 70 years from the year after the year in which
he dies. The countries in which this true includes those in the EU,
America, and many in the Commonwealth, including Australia. Copyright
across borders is protected both by international agreement and by
mutual reciprocity arrangements between nations.

Rest of meaningless drivel snipped.

You don't have much of a life do you?

What were you ever a commander of, Corey? Sure as hell not any navy in
a democracy because, d'you see, one of the purposes of the armed
forces in a democracy is to ensure property rights. For someone who
insists on his military rank on a hobby newsgroup to sneer at an
explanation of an important property right is so fundamentally
thoughtless as to be bizarre, and an indictment of the judgement of
the service which promoted him.

Andre Jute