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Re: ITP: vice and vice-roms



On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 10:31:01PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> IIRC, ceasing to exist just takes the copyrights with you, and no one
> has the right to use them. (All at once, "We love the copyright laws!
> We love the copyright laws!" (-: )

Copyright is property just like anything else, and it is either sold, or
transferred to heirs or debtors.  It does not cease to exist (if it did,
then there would be no copyright and hence the work would be in the PD).

IANAL, and I know very little of law outside Finland.
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