Re: [IFWP] Re: Hilights from today's hearing

[Kent Crispin]

On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:38:28AM -0400, Diane Cabell wrote:
> you have any right in it.  If you pay someone to take pictures of your wedding but 
>fail to
> do it under a carefully worded contract,  you are only entitled under US law to get 
>copies
> of the photos.  You have no right to reproduce them or distribute them publicly.  The
> copyright ownership in the photos belongs to the photographer  because that is the 
>person
> who "created" the work.
> 
> > If they *didn't* own it and it belonged to the Internet community - the
> > only other viable candidate, then the USG can step out right now. :-)
> 
> That's exactly what I'm saying.

Fine -- the contact database belongs to the Internet community. 
Presuming you can define "Internet community", how do you propose
that the Internet community regain control of it? The only entity in
a position to do anything for us is...the USG. 

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain