wrote:

>In short, copyright is from the moment you write it, it does not have to be 
>actively sold, published, viewed or used in order to stay copyrighted


That is true of course and nobody is trying to take away Vince's copyright, 
reverse engineer his product, or steal his copyright which by the way is on 
the source code and NOT on the binary copy.

I think despite the fact that the US provides the usual silo-istic 
perspective, one needs to understand that there are many other countries 
with a less-mercenary social framework that balance intellectual property 
against the public's rights. In all fairness there are also other countries 
who suppress individual rights and public rights altogether except 
selectively, although this is kind-of like not being able to afford a lawyer 
in the US:)

Here, follow this Unesco link:

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27422&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Bill
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