From: "John Beamish" 

You could move from the hypothetical to the real:

The Royal Ontario Museum has a plaster cast of part of the carvings on an
ancient building (Greek, I think).  Anyway, the original carving (it's
outdoors) is now seriously damaged from the elements.  The plaster carving
is now considered to be (and I can't remember the exact phrase) "an
antiquity".


"Geo."  wrote in message news:409d85ba{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> I had an argument the other day about ownership vs copyright, you know how
> they like to claim that just because you bought a copy you don't own the
> material. Here was the example.
>
> Someone records some event, it is a singular recording. I come along and
pay
> them for a copy, it is the only copy but it is a digital exact copy.
>
> The next day there is a fire and their original is destroyed.
>
> Do I own my copy? If the copyright owner wanted, could he legally require
me
> to allow him to make a copy from my copy or could I prevent that claiming
> that it would lower the value of my copy and dilute the market for me
> selling copies once the copyright expires?
>
> Geo.
>
>

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