Re: Copyrights as Property (Was: Copyright Extension Bill Passes Congress)

On 11/01/98, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
>
> As I see it, there are three diferent entities that need to be
> considered:
>
> 1) the work, a metaphysical thing that is not property, or, to the
> extent it can be characterized as property, is public property;
>
> 2) the copyright in the work, a legislatively created bundle of
> specific rights concerning reproduction, etc., of the work, and that
> is the property of the author and/or his assigns;
>
> 3) the copy, the only physical thing in the analysis, which is the
> material object from which the work is perceived, and which is the
> property of the individual who acquires title to the physical object
> lawfully produced under the ordinary rules for transfer of a chattel.

Aha. <lightbulb turns on> Now this thesis makes sense to me.

Thanks, Terry.

Benedict A. Monachino
Peabody & Arnold LLP
<bam[_at_]p-a.com> Received on Mon Nov 02 1998 - 13:50:24 GMT