Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:30:55 09/09/99
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It seems this kind of things are common in USA. I have recently seen in Discovery channel -I believe it was there- an history about how jazz singer Jimmy Scott was hampered many years in his career due to somebody claming he had the rights of every thing Jimmy never sung. Had he the rights? Maybe, maybe not; in the meantime jazz and popular music lost 10 years of Scott singing. Lawyers are never scarce to produce a pain in the ass for some bucks and stopping science or arts if somebody can get a few dollars with it. Shame. Private rights to property are OK, provided they does not hamper and damage the righ of the community to get a benefice. And it seems that lawyers always can make a case where a guy that just wrote a poem about the moon automatically get rights to the exploration of it. fernando
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