CHAPDISC: DH25, Shell Cottage

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 183999

> > Carol:
 If I paint your
> > portrait (pretencding that I can do so) and you pay me for it, 
you own
> > the portrait. I *might* own the reproduction rights, depending on 
what
> > society I live in, but not the portrait itself. 

Potioncat:
Or if a person, let's call her Jo, writes a book and someone else, 
let's call him Steve, creates a companion book---who gets say whether 
it can be published?
 
> 
> Montavilla47:
> I think this would depend on the original contract. snip
  Maybe it was only for life that Godric Gryffindor leased the sword. 
> We don't really know, do we?

Potioncat:
Contracts in the WW are tricky. Sign your name on a parchment and one 
slip of the tongue gets you a nasty scar. Someone puts your name in a 
goblet and you have to risk your life in a contest.
> 

I don't know if the British ran into this, but on this continent--
(oh, yeah, we were the British) the Native Americans had a very 
different slant on land ownership than the Europeans did. Certainly 
in the beginning sharing the land meant something very different to 
them than to the Europeans. 

I had the feeling that Goblins truly have a different slant on 
ownership than wizards do; and honestly felt cheated. (Although you'd 
think by now they'd have caught on.)