"Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxx> writes: > US Law is quite strightforward about who owns copyright > initially. It's the creator of the piece of intellectual property. > After that a skillion things can happen and some of them are also > covered in the law. Read up on "derivative works" in copyright law; it's not as simple as you're claiming. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>