[time-nuts] Data Professionals Press Release

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20101212110630.E4F6211B84C at karen.lavabit.com>, "Charles P. Steinmet
z" writes:
>I wrote:
>
>>>Intellectual property rights do not just evaporate or return to the
>>>public domain when a company disappears -- SOMEONE owns them
>
>Poul replied:
>
>>Actually, they do evaporate if nobody defends them.
>
>But a rights holder almost never loses all rights, [...]

...provided they can prove that they own them in the first place.

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