From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c42dbf68f5320193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-08 11:01:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: More on copyright, (Re: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN) Date: 8 May 2002 11:01:34 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205081001.4dea7680@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0204301457.52a492c3@posting.google.com> <11Hz8.4180$PE6.2467133575@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> <5ee5b646.0205010443.55afee85@posting.google.com> <3CD0043A.AB588053@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0205020427.4993d828@posting.google.com> <3CD92EA5.2EF45E7D@despammed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1020880895 20791 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2002 18:01:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2002 18:01:35 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23732 Date: 2002-05-08T18:01:35+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote in message news:<3CD92EA5.2EF45E7D@despammed.com>... > But I _can_ claim copyright on the parts that I did. Not really! You can't just go around creating deriviative works without the original author's permission, since this is in itself a clear copyright violation. At the very least this would cancel out any claim of ownership to the derived product that you might think you have. Example: if you create a version of Lion King with overspoken comments on this Disney film, you are definitely violating Disney's copyright and they will come after you. The question of your own copyright interests in the joint work will hardly arise in this situation. It will be a moot point in the true sense of the word, the court will not need to decide this issue (leaving it moot = arguable, and undecided) because the issue of you violating the copyright will be what comes to the court's attention!