(June 29, 2009 at 6:46 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Anyway, copyright: copy + right gives the author of an original work the exclusive right to the publication, distribution, etc of the work. Copyright law is the law that gives the right, but the right itself is...a right!
Only a right in law and thus it is merely a legal distinction, copyright is just a name. It could be called anything ("act of copy" 2001 or whatever) ... it happens to be called what it is.
Were you trying to use that argument to prove that rights exist?
Kyu
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