Semi-OT: Congress about to limit artists' copyright rights

[Luke -Jr]

On Friday 30 May 2008, Billy Crook wrote:
> How *fair* do you think it is that you are able today, to spend hundreds of
> hours on some work only to discover (after you've spent thousands, millions
> of your own money) to bring your idea to market, that there was some prior
> work with copyright that you had NO WAY to know about, but yet now, all your
> time, and all your money is in vain.

While I'm no fan of copyright law, this is FUD and can never happen with 
copyrights. Copyrights only deal with copying information. If you spent 
hundreds of hours working on it, and didn't copy it, copyright cannot get in 
your way.

Basically, it is impossible to copy something (violating copyright) if you 
don't know it exists.