On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:37 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> 2010/7/20 andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com>:
> > If you find a planet on a bus there's no contract you may be affected
> > by.  There may be copyright, which may protect the content.  If
> > there's nothing written on it then you basically have to assume "All
> > rights reserved", provided there's any originality, creativity etc. in
> > that planet dump which is not confirmed.
>
>
> usually if you find something (let's say on a bus) you will not become
> legally the proprietor (in the jurisdictions I know of). You have no
> rights whatsoever on the found object but instead have the obligation
> to give it back to the proprietor (e.g. by giving the found object to
> the bus staff, or to a government agency/ the police).
>

Depends if the property was lost, mislaid, or abandoned, in the
jurisdictions I know of.
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