On 5/12/2009 4:12 PM, John VanSickle wrote:
> "Copyright" means the *exclusive* right to make copies. That right is
> diminished whenever someone else, without the copyright holder's
> permission, makes a copy. Unless corrected, the owner's right is no
> longer *exclusive*, and thus he no longer retains all of the rights and
> privileges that he had, preceding the violation. He certainly loses some
> of the perks, because profiting from the copy is one of these perks,
> which is rightfully his.
>
> That's why it's called "copyright" and not "sellright," "takeright,"
> "haveright," or other phrases.

You're right about the exclusive right no longer being exclusive, of 
course, but such a right is really more of a privilege than in inherent 
right and rather an abstract concept anyway.

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...Chambers
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