Who owns the data 138On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:32:51 +1000, John Andrews If you and I were of different branches of the same family with a common ancestor several generations back...
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:40:39 GMT, Kevin Ettery
Actually that's not true.
Who owns the data 137RM: Yes it is. Public records such as BDM records are a clbuttic example of that. Courts are also "Courts of Public record" and their published documents are also available for all to see and...
If a book is published, any book in any bookshop or library, it is in the public domain because it has been made available to the public for purchase or loan. However, the work *is* copyright. It has been copyrighted and it remains in copyright even after the author's rest for a set period. You will find that there is a copyright notice in the front of every book. On non-fiction works, it is the presentation of the facts that is copyright of the author. On fiction works, it's the entire work, storyline, characters, the lot - providing that it is the author's original work and not a work that has been stolen from another author and presented as a new work.
I would take great exception - and legal action - if any of my books were, in effect, stolen and posted up on the internet, for instance, in their entirety without my explicit consent, knowledge and permission.
Incidentally all posts are actually copyright as well. Strictly speaking only a limited amount should be quoted in any reply. However, permission is given *implicitly* for a full quote given the nature of the medium.
Copyright law is extremely complex and even more so when the internet is involved.
