Xref: utzoo misc.legal:13337 news.admin:8095 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: misc.legal,news.admin Subject: Re: Copyrights on Usenet Articles Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 90 12:49:33 GMT References: <946@crash.cts.com> <1989Dec21.000041.6034@ns.network.com> <45061@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4198@convex.UUCP> <600@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <1422@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> <1990Jan7.205850.814@world.std.com> <7686@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Distribution: usa Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 11 > That's facetious. I have the exclusive right to use a certain item, but > I let other people use it all the time. Does that mean that I've lost my > right, that I can't take the item back and say ``Sorry, no more''? Of > course not. In English common law, the basis of the law in most states of the U.S., there is a concept known as "right of way". By not protecting your property (such as by putting up a gate) you may lose the right to keep other people from using it. Is this concept relevent to U.S. law? I think so: consider what happens if you fail to protect a trademark. Is it relevent to this discussion? I don't know. Again, talk to a lawyer. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ Also or \_.--._/ v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'