Re: A Little Linguistic Playground

On 03/23/99, Earl Horsefield <ehorsefield[_at_]usgs.gov> wrote:
>
> On 03/17/99, Steve Jamar <sjamar[_at_]law.howard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Earl Horsefield <ehorsefield[_at_]usgs.gov> wrote:
> > >
> > > How about
> > >
> > > Copyright (c) 1999 by (Name) and copyright vacated
> > > immediately thereafter.
> >
> > The others have been silly and adequately (and undeservedly) answered
> > seriously. But this one is not viable for a very different reason - the
> > term "vacated" is a term of art in the law and has nothing to do with
> > relinquishing or abandoning or dedicating a right to the public.
>
> I don't understand why the word `vacate' or `vacated' would not have
> the dictionary definition in the law, when not talking about occupancy
> of an office houws etc... - in my Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
> copyright (latest) 1961 the very first definition is "1. To annul,
> make void; as to vacate a charter" - so why would it not be proper to
> say vacate or vacated for a copyright???

Correction - I intended "office, house, etc." in the above email.

Horse

Earl Horsefield
<ehorsefield[_at_]usgs.gov> Received on Wed Mar 24 1999 - 13:58:51 GMT