BMJ - PKI and signinng slight confusion

[John Enser]

Denis,

No lawyer can resist an invitation to pontificate.

You are right.  Separate ownership of physical and intellectual assets is
very common - you buy a newspaper, you own the paper, but not the copyright
in the words on the paper, which are with the newspaper or (occasionally)
the author, or the copyright in the photographs, which remain with the paper
or photographer.  You can re-sell the physical object, but you cannot trade
in the words or pictures separate from the object

John
www.olswang.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Russell [mailto:Denis.Russell@ncl.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 2:08 PM
To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Subject: Re: RE: RE: BMJ - PKI and signinng slight confusion


At 10:54 pm +0100 12/9/00, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>...I don't buy the paper I use.  It arrives in boxes form the HA
...

It doesn't seem obvious to me that whoever owns a sheet of paper 
necessarily owns whatever gets written on it, but separate ownership 
of a sheet of paper and something that is written on it is also an 
interesting concept. I hope some legally trained folk will help us 
out here...

	Denis.


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