[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: HP & DH Movie

[Heidi Tandy]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:55 pm, Carol wrote:
>
> Because it relates to copyright law, the topic that started this
> discussion in the first place. It *is* the government's or the court's
> place to determine who owns the rights to a writer's work,


Not really. The government has already decided that a person owns the 
work he or she creates (like I own the content of this email) unless he 
or she assigns or licenses that work away. The government doesn't have 
anything else to do with that, other than to step in with an arbitration 
method (the courts) in cases of breach or fraud.

The government can step in if either party in a union-negotiating 
situation isn't doing so fairly or in violation of labor laws or 
anti-monopoly laws and regulations, though.

- heidi