RE: [Open_Gaming] Public Domain Names

[Russ Taylor]

On 6/20/00 4:18 PM, Doug Meerschaert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

>Yes, it does--if a buisness holds the copyright (say, your small buisness
>incorporates, and they get the copyright... or it's a "work for hire" to
>your own buisness) you can see it lapse--and that shouldn't happen.

Why?

When you make a work for hire, you are giving up your rights as author in 
exchange for pay.  You have no right whatsoever to object to what happens 
to a work you've transferred your copyright on.

The purpose of copyright law is to assure an author material benefit from 
their work.  When a company pays you to write something, you've already 
gotten your material benefit.

-- 
Russ Taylor (http://www.cmc.net/~rtaylor/)
CMC Tech Support Manager

"OK, if you guys are so evil, why don't you just...EAT THIS KITTEN!"

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